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Fisher v. United States, 328 U.S. 463 (1946)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Fisher v. United States, 328 U.S. 463 (1946)
Fisher v. United States No. 122 Argued December 5, 1945 Decided June 10, 1946 328 U.S. 463
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Syllabus
1. In a trial in the District of Columbia for murder in the first degree, as defined in D.C.Code, 1940, Title 22, § 2401, which makes deliberation and premeditation essential elements of the crime, it was not error for the court to refuse to instruct the jury that they should consider evidence of the defendant’s mental deficiency, concededly not amounting to legal insanity, to determine whether he was guilty of murder in the first or second degree. Pp. 464, 470, 473.
2. This Court may notice material error in the instructions in a criminal case even though the error is not specifically challenged, and the Court should do so when life is at stake, even in cases from the District of Columbia. Pp. 467-468.
3. Matters relating to law enforcement in the District of Columbia being entrusted to the courts of the District, the policy of this Court is not to interfere with the local rules of law which they fashion, save in exceptional situations where egregious error has been committed. P. 476.
80 U.S.App.D.C. 96, 149 F.2d 28, affirmed.
Petitioner was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed. 80 U.S.App.D.C. 96, 149 F.2d 28. This Court granted certiorari. 326 U.S. 705. Affirmed, p. 477.
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Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Fisher v. United States, 328 U.S. 463 (1946). cited in 1946, 328 U.S. 463, pp.328 U.S. 464. Original Sources, retrieved 25 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=FM2I69D92KHUBYI.
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