Legal Opinion
United States v. Lonnie M. Brown, Robert L. Newsome, James B. Finney, Julian E. Seymour, Jr., and Benjamin Clyde Cranford, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 24, 1977No. 75-2482PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
The appellants, former officers of the Macon, Georgia, police department, were charged in a three count indictment with protecting various vice-related activities in violation of several provisions of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (the Act). 1 They were convicted following a jury trial in May 1975. 2 In this appeal, appellants question the validity of the indictment, a variety of procedural and evidentiary rulings, and the final instructions to the jury. To place these issues in proper perspective and to facilitate their analysis, we shall first set forth what…
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- United States v. HarrissSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
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3Cited by136 opinions
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