Legal Opinion
United States v. Hearst
District Court, N.D. California
Decided November 19, 1976No. CR-74-364 WHOPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
. OPINION AND ORDER
ORRICK, District Judge.
After eight weeks of trial encompassing some seventy-three witnesses and one hundred eighty-six exhibits, defendant was convicted of armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d) and use of a firearm to commit a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). Sentence having been imposed, defendant now brings this motion for a new trial on grounds of “newly discovered evidence”. The allegation is essentially that the government violated its obligations under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963).
At trial, defendant admitted…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Giglio v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by8 opinions
- United States v. Patricia Campbell HearstCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1977
- Neelley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1985
- United States v. Frank Lewis Jackson, (Two Cases). United States of America v. John Brett AllenCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1978
- Neelley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1993
- United States v. HearstDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1978
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