Sierra-Hernandez v. United States

Sierra-Hernandez v. United States, 439 U.S. 936 (1978)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: October 30, 1978
Docket: No. 78-5487
Citations: 439 U.S. 93658 L. Ed. 2d 333

Cited by 111 17 descriptions by later courts

Opinion of the Court

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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.

How later courts describe this case

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(Justices Stewart and Marshall dissenting from the Court’s denial of writs of certiorari and contending that the Court should resolve the circuit split on this issue[.])

People v. Katt, 662 N.W.2d 12 (Mich. 2003)
(“We perceive no error in the prosecution’s use of leading questions before the grand jury.”)

United States v. Cessa, 861 F.3d 121 (5th Cir. 2017)
(J. Stewart and J. Marshall dissenting from denial of certiorari because of a difference among the courts of appeals on the admissibility of grand jury testimony under Rule 804(b)(5))

United States v. Dent, 984 F.2d 1453 (7th Cir. 1993)
(“standards of reliability should not prevent appropriate police action when a victim of a crime immediately has contacted the police”)

State v. Gaston, 842 A.2d 1171 (Conn. App. Ct. 2004)
(“Unlike a person who makes an anonymous phone call . .. the informant was in a position to be held accountable for his intervention. The reliability of the information was thus increased.”)

United States v. Kent, 691 F.2d 1376 (11th Cir. 1982)
(reasonable suspicion established based on anonymous tip corroborated only by observations of innocent details)

People v. Davis, 669 P.2d 130 (Colo. 1983)
(denial of petitions for writs of certiorari, Stewart, J. dissenting)

State v. Stefanelli, 396 A.2d 1105 (N.J. 1979)
(unidentified individual told border patrol agent that a specifically described truck had just loaded with marijuana at a canebrake, agent knew canebrake to have been site of past smuggling activity and found the truck nearby--held sufficient to justify investigatory stop of truck)

United States v. Gomez, 776 F.2d 542 (5th Cir. 1985)

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State v. Garcia25 S.W.3d 908 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2000)
United States v. Jeffrey A. Barlow693 F.2d 954 (6th Cir. 1982)
United States v. Orson G648 F.2d 29 (D.C. Cir. 1981)
United States v. Robert P. McCall740 F.2d 1331 (4th Cir. 1984)
State v. Stolte991 S.W.2d 336 (Tex. App. 1999)
United States v. Edward Rodriguez612 F.2d 906 (5th Cir. 1980)

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Robert Wayne Mayfield v. StateNo. 12-06-00424-CR (Tex. App.—Tyler Apr. 30, 2008)

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