Brzezinski v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Criminal prosecution by the United States against James O. Brzezinski. From a judgment of conviction, defendant brings error. This cause comes here upon writ of error to review a judgment of the Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, convicting plaintiff in error under an indictment for perjury.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Criminal prosecution by the United States against James O. Brzezinski. From a judgment of conviction, defendant brings error. This cause comes here upon writ of error to review a judgment of the Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, convicting plaintiff in error under an indictment for perjury. The indictment charged that defendant was sworn as a witness before the grand jury, which was then engaged in an investigation into an alleged conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, in…
1Opinion of the CourtLacombe, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The. points raised -on this writ' of ‘ error are wholly technical. The record makes out a Very clear case; it is difficult to see how any intelligent person, reading it, could escape the conviction that defendant in testifying before the grand jury perjured himself, deliberately and willfully, and that he did so, taking his chance of this indictment and conviction, because he was bribed to do so, in order to help Spitzer to escape the consequences of his conduct. The evidence in the case is peculiarly strong, because the bulk of it consists of statements to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Williamson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
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