Legal Opinion
United States v. James Harrison Barham, A/K/A Robert Myers
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 16, 1979No. 78-5239PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:
Fictional in many respects, but alas true, this case is a remarkable and often entertaining tale of the bogus and the duplicitous: it involves the false testimony of Government witnesses in the trial of a man who assumed an alias while participating in a scheme to counterfeit money. As with many fascinating and entertaining tales of fiction, however, a serious object lesson lies at the end: the failure of the prosecution to correct false testimony which it knows to be false violates due process if there is any reasonable likelihood that the false testimo ny could…
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