Legal Opinion
United States v. Richard A. Whittington, Richard Wolfe and W. Lewis Demoss, Jr., Defendants
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 2, 1986No. 84-4813PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
The defendants were convicted in a bench trial of various offenses revolving around the alleged submission of a false claim for benefits under the federal Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983. In this appeal, they contend that the district court improperly admitted in evidence a document crucial to the government’s case, the evidence' was insufficient to support their conviction, and the prosecution was guilty of misconduct in threatening to indict potential defense witnesses for perjury with the result that the witnesses claimed the protection of the fifth…
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