Legal Opinion
United States v. Bobby Glenn Dyal, A/K/A Robert Dyal
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 24, 1989No. 88-3332PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
A federal grand jury indicted defendant-appellee Bobby Glenn Dyal on three counts of mailing threatening letters, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 876. Dyal moved to dismiss the indictment with prejudice on the ground that the dismissal, two years earlier, of a criminal complaint alleging the same offenses bars this prosecution. The district court granted the motion, and the government appeals. Concluding that the district court abused its discretion by dismissing the indictment, we reverse.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
On June 12, 1985, the government filed a criminal complaint…
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