Legal Opinion
United States v. Houlihan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 22, 1996No. 95-1614, 95-1615 and 95-1675PublishedCited by 214 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
These appeals present a hothouse of efflorescent issues set against a backdrop composed of roughly equal parts of drugs, money, and mayhem. Two of those issues — one impheating the Confrontation Clause and the other involving Fed.R.Crim.P. 24(c) — raise important questions of first impression in this circuit. In the pages that follow, we offer a skeletal outline of the case and then put flesh on the bones by addressing, first, the appellants’ two flagship claims. We next consider a series of discovery disputes and conclude by discussing, albeit in a more abbreviated…
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