United States v. Knoell

DICKINSON, District Judge.

This motion is based upon a number of reasons. Some of them may be grouped in classes, and others do not call for discussion. We will take them up as raising the questions which counsel for defendants has discussed, but in a different order.

[1] Several of the reasons go to what may be called the abstract justice of the case. Is the verdict just? The basis of this question is the source of the incriminating evidence. It is admittedly tainted. The chief witnesses, and indeed all the witnesses, whose testimony was not confined to facts which required only formal proof,…