Legal Opinion
Nelson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 2, 1953No. Nos. 11353-11361, 11363, 11364PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAZELON, Circuit Judge.
All the appellants were jointly tried and convicted under District of Columbia lottery laws for conducting a large “numbers” operation controlled by one of them, Charles E. Nelson.1 Seventy highly incriminating papers belonging to Nelson were admitted in evidence as Government exhibits, over his objection that they were obtained from him in an illegal search and seizure2 by the Senate’s Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce.3 At the hearing on Nelson’s motion to return these papers and suppress them in evidence, the main thrust of his counsel’s…
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3Cited by64 opinions
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