United States v. Hall

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

Both defendants in this action are under indictment and awaiting trial on a bribery charge. By this motion, defendant Wong Suey Loon seeks an opportunity to examine before trial two statements — one signed, the other unsigned — which he made to government agents shortly after his arrest.1 He contends that he is entitled to this relief under either Rule 16 or Rule 17(c) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C.A. He thus raises the question of the scope of both these rules, a question upon which judicial opinion is divided.

Rule 16 is the sole…