Legal Opinion
United States v. Stokes
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 28, 1997No. 97-1118PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The United States appeals from the dismissal, on due process grounds, of an indictment against defendant-appellee Ronald A.X. Stokes. Because the district court acted improvidently and in excess of its authority, we reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
The factual foundation of the case is laid elsewhere, see United States v. Stokes, 947 F.Supp. 546 (D.Mass.1996); Commonwealth v. Stokes, 38 Mass.App.Ct. 752, 653 N.E.2d 180, review denied, 421 Mass. 1103, 655 N.E.2d 1277 (1995), and a sketch suffices for present purposes.
Boston police officers arrested Stokes on December 6, 1990, and…
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