Legal Opinion
United States v. Hawkins
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 16, 1981No. 80-7140PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY, Circuit Judge:
On this consolidated appeal seven defendants, jointly tried before a federal jury, challenge their convictions for drug conspiracy. The defendants raise numerous points of error, including the composition of the grand and petit juries, restrictions on cross-examination, prosecutorial misconduct, Brady violations, judicial bias, denial of a bill of particulars, sufficiency of the indictment and evidence, the denial of severance, improper comments of a codefendant’s attorney, admissibility of evidence obtained through an allegedly illegal search, and mistreatment in a…
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