Legal Opinion
Caldwell v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 18, 1953No. 11116PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.
This is a criminal case, in which the central issue is whether the appellant was denied a fair trial by reason of the tactics of the prosecution.
Bennie Caldwell was indicted in mid-1950 for attempting to “reach” the jurors in the criminal trial of another person. 1 He was tried and convicted in the following May. He then moved “for a judgment of acquittal or for a new trial” upon the ground, among others, “that defendant and his counsel were unwarrantedly, unduly and illegally hampered and interfered with in the preparation and presentation of the defense.” The…
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