Legal Opinion
Will v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 13, 1967No. 36PublishedCited by 1,070 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Warren
The question in this case is the propriety of a writ of. mandamus issued by the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to compel the petitioner, a United States District Judge, to vacate a portion of a pretrial order in a criminal case.
Simmie Horwitz, the defendant in a criminal tax evasion case pending before petitioner in the Northern District of Illinois, filed a motion for a bill of particulars, which contained thirty requests for information. The Government resisted a number of the requests, and over the course of several hearings most of these objections *92were either withdrawn by the…
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