Legal Opinion
United States v. Burnell G. Watson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 11, 1980No. 79-2337PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Burnell Watson was convicted after a jury trial of making false statements before a grand jury in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623(a). 1 The grand jury before which Watson allegedly testified had been impaneled in Danville, Illinois, 2 to investigate possible violations of the federal antitrust and mail fraud statutes involving conspiracies to rig bids on municipal and state highway construction projects. The indictment 3 charged Watson, a highway contractor, with making a false declaration when he responded in the negative to the following question:
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