Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Neal Allen
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 1, 1986No. 85-1717PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
This court is called upon to address the scope and administration of the Jencks Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3500, which requires a federal prosecutor to produce for the defense any statement or report made by a witness which relates to that witness’s testimony on direct examination and, if contested, to submit the statement or report to the court for an in camera inspection. In this case the district court did not require the United States Attorney to produce the alleged Jencks material, nor did the court choose to examine the material in camera, purportedly because of an…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- United States v. BaileySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Jencks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Ball v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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