Schmuck v. United States
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schmuck-v-united-states-298-14683705
title:
Schmuck v. United States
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Schmuck v. United States, 489 U.S. 705 (1989), is a United States Supreme Court decision on criminal law and procedure. By a 5–4 margin it upheld the mail fraud conviction of an Illinois man and resolved a conflict among the appellate circuits over which test to use to determine if a defendant was entitled to a jury instruction allowing conviction on a lesser included charge. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote for the majority; Antonin Scalia for the dissent. The case had begun when Schmuck was prosec
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1989 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmuck_v._United_States
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2023-09-13T03:03:11Z
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