Legal Opinion
United States v. Spiver Whitney Gordon
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 2, 1987No. 85-7726PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Per curiam
The defendant, Spiver Whitney Gordon, was convicted, following a jury trial in October 1985 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on four counts: two counts of mail fraud for placing in the mail an envelope containing a fraudulently marked primary election ballot, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1341; and two counts of furnishing false information to the Absentee Election Manager in order to permit a vote- by absentee ballot in the Alabama Primary Election. 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973i(c). We vacate and remand for an evidentiary hearing on Gordon’s selective prosecution claim, and on his claim that it was discriminatory for the…
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