Legal Opinion
United States v. Frank Hayes, Dorothy Foley Hayes and Alice Baldwin
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 14, 1979No. 78-5149PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAY, Circuit Judge:
This case involves an outrageous episode in law enforcement. Taking the evidence in a light most favorable to the government, see Glasser v. United States, 315 U.S. 60, 80, 62 S.Ct. 457, 86 L.Ed. 680 (1942), this story unfolds as follows.
On September 14, 1975, at 10:30 p. m. Officer Donald McCall, of the Castroville, Texas Police Department was directed by appellant Frank Hayes, then Chief of Police of the Castroville Police Department, to serve misdemeanor arrest warrants on Richard A. Morales. McCall was also directed by Hayes to obtain the serial numbers from a stereo…
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- United States Ex Rel. Accardi v. ShaughnessySupreme Court of the United States · 1954
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