United States v. James A. Conlon

BAZELON, Senior Circuit Judge:

James A. Conlon was charged in a four count indictment with three counts of false declaration before the grand jury 1 and one count of conflict of interest. 2 The district court dismissed all four counts. The government appealed. We affirm the dismissal of the false declaration counts, adopting the opinion of the court below insofar as it deals with them. 3 However, we reject the district court’s analysis of 18 U.S.C. § 208(a), 4 and reverse the dismissal of the conflict of interest count. Our discussion will be confined to that count.

I. FACTS

Until July 1, 1977,…