United States v. Neville Bruce Thompson

ALBERT Y. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Indicted for bank robbery,1 appellant Ne-ville Bruce Thompson was found guilty by a jury in the Federal Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and sentenced to imprisonment for sixteen years. He now appeals, primarily asserting that certain testimony allowed at trial violated his privilege against disclosure of marital communications. Although we conclude that the trial court erred in permitting the Government to introduce this evidence, we see the error as harmless and so affirm.

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On November 4, 1981, at about 11:30 a.m., a man driving a…