Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Elmer Cecil
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 5, 1972No. 71-1407PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Cecil was indicted, and found guilty by a jury, on the charge of possessing a short-barrel shotgun in violation of 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d) and 5871. He was sentenced under the Youth Corrections Act and now appeals.
At about 5:00 P.M. on August 22, 1970, a group of local and federal officers went to an Omaha, Nebraska, address for the purpose of serving arrest warrants on Duane Peak and Edward Poindexter, who had been charged with murder in state proceedings. At the time the premises were known to the Omaha police as the headquarters of the National…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Massiah v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Albert Douglas Davis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1964
- Helen Frances Sutton Root v. Isabel H. GauperCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by38 opinions
- United States v. John D. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1976
- United States v. William N. AndersonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1973
- United States v. James Francis MelvinCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1979
- United States v. William D. White and Terry L. KenoCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- United States v. William Calvin WoodsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
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