Legal Opinion
United States v. Frank Gengo
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 22, 1986No. 114, Docket 86-1263PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
As government prosecutors seek to bring defendants to trial on appropriately drawn charges, they frequently have need to revise their initial indictments. The law must seek to accommodate both the duty of the government to prosecute alleged criminal activities fully and the right of defendants to have timely notice of the charges against them to enable them to marshal a defense.
We are called upon to decide whether the conspiracy charge in the superseding indictment on which appellant Frank Gengo was tried was so substantially changed from the charge in the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- United States v. Frank Grady and John JankowskiCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
- United States v. James PanebiancoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
- United States v. Lucy VelezCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1981
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3Cited by57 opinions
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- Hernandez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2004
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