United States v. Leroy Harris, Jr., United States of America v. Albert Joseph Long

GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

In these two cases, consolidated here on appeal, the Government appeals under 18 U.S.C. § 3731 from orders entered by the District Court for the Western District of Missouri suppressing as evidence certain handwriting exemplars taken from defendants prior to their being charged with federal crimes, on the basis that the taking of the exemplars violated the defendants’ Fourth Amendment rights. Although there is a common question underlying both of these appeals, the facts of each are sufficiently different to warrant separate discussion.

United States v. Harri s—o. 71-1220

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