Austin v. United States

Austin v. United States, 382 F.2d 129 (D.c. Cir. 1967) is a United States case “holding that federal appellate court has power... to modify conviction by reducing it to a lesser included offense”. It reviewed the history of the premeditation rule set forth in United States v. Watson (1985).[1]

References

  1. Criminal Law Cases and Materials, 7th ed 2012; John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder
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