Jim B. Edmonds v. United States

The judgment of conviction is reversed and the case is remanded for a new trial. Circuit Judge Bazelon, with whom Chief Judge Edgerton and Circuit Judges Fahy and Washington concur, files an opinion in support of the judgment of reversal. Circuit Judges Prettyman and Burger concur in the result. Circuit Judge Wilbur K. Miller, with whom Circuit Judges Danaher and Bastían join, files an opinion dissenting from the judgment of reversal.

Bazelon, Circuit Judge, with whom Edgerton, Chief Judge, Fahy and Washington, Circuit Judges, join: Appellant, a 19-year old Marine, seeks reversal of his…