Legal Opinion
United States v. James Louis Reid
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 14, 1969No. 16922_1PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
Defendant, a prison inmate, was tried twice on an indictment charging him with assaulting a federal penal institution employee engaged in the performance of his official duties. 2 Self-defense was the justification offered. The first trial resulted in a hung jury, but two months later a second jury found defendant guilty. This appeal is from the three-year sentence imposed after his motion for a new trial was denied. The sentence was to run consecutively to a previous sentence being served.
According to the evidence, about 9:30 p. m. on January 27, 1967, the prison…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- United States v. S. Lawrence Kahn, Arthur B. Sachs and M. Prial CurranCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1967
- United States v. Richard NielsenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1968
- Richard Lee Golliher v. United States of America, Harry Richard Holmes v. United States of America, Carl Dean Wheeler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1966
- Raoul Moody v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by42 opinions
- United States v. George LawsonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974
- United States v. CadenaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- United States v. Robert Covelli, David Frederick and Darwin MurrayCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- Edward Howard v. William D. O'sullivan, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1999
- United States v. GreenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
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