Legal Opinion

Robert Tyrone Morgan v. United States Department of Justice

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided January 18, 1991No. 89-5469PublishedCited by 42 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge WALD.

WALD, Chief Judge:

Appellant Robert Tyrone Morgan filed a Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, (“FOIA”) request with the Office of the United States Attorney in Baltimore requesting handwritten “rough notes” containing a Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) agent’s impressions of an interview with a prosecution witness who testified in Morgan’s bank robbery trial. The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) denied Morgan’s FOIA request because the notes had been placed under seal by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland,…

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