Legal Opinion
United States v. Curtis Jordan Hill
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 22, 1987No. 86-2860PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN P. MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Curtis Jordan Hill appeals his conviction for the crime of stealing property of the government, 18 U.S.C. § 641. The objects of the charged theft were money and an automobile belonging to the United States. With commendable candor, defendant acknowledges his dominion over this property may have been illegal, and perhaps even criminal, but he contends that even so, he could not be guilty of the offense charged as a matter of law. He argues that because he did not unlawfully come into possession of the property in the first instance, by definition his…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Turner v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Chiarella v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- United States v. TurleySupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- United States v. Delmer Porter, Kenneth A. Berdick, M.D. And Myron Teitelbaum, M.D.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
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3Cited by28 opinions
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