Legal Opinion
United States v. James Allen Hibler
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 5, 1972No. 71-1322PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:
Hibler appeals from his convictions of robbing a United States mail carrier (18 U.S.C. § 2114) and possessing stolen mail (18 U.S.C. § 1708), asserting insufficiency of the evidence, failure of the prosecutor to disclose evidence valuable to the defense, and various procedural errors of the trial judge. After one trial ended in a mistrial, Hibler was found guilty by a jury on both counts at his second trial. We reverse.
The facts concerning the robbery itself are undisputed: the victim was delivering mail on August 13, 1970, when he was stopped at approximately 11:30 a.…
2Cases cited47 opinions
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- United States Ex Rel. Almeida v. BaldiCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1952
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