Legal Opinion
John Briggs v. Guy Goodwin
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 17, 1983No. 80-2269PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAZELON, Senior Circuit Judge:
This civil suit arises out of criminal proceedings brought against appellants in 1972. Appellants1 allege that Guy Goodwin, an attorney with the Department of Justice, misrepresented to them in open court that one of their comrades was not a government informant. They claim that this misrepresentation, which Goodwin left uncorrected, violated their Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel because it led them to share various aspects of their defense with the informant. They seek both compensatory and punitive damages in a “Bivens-type” cause…
2Cases cited46 opinions
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- Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Scheuer v. RhodesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- United States v. Diebold, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1962
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