United States v. Darrell H. Strouse James R. Willis

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

A federal grand jury indicted Darrell Strouse and James Willis, both formerly of the Houston Police Department, for conspiring to violate the civil rights of Rogelio Oregon Pineda and Pedro Oregon Navarro in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241. The district court dismissed the indictment because Pineda’s1 testimony before the grand jury was perjurious, and, according to the district court, tainted the grand jury’s decision to indict the Defendants. We hold that perjury before the grand jury that was not knowingly sponsored by the government may not form the…