United States v. Murphy

HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge:

The defendants, Murphy and Waddell, were indicted for the robbery of three banks in northern Virginia. In successive trials, they were convicted of two of those offenses after which the United States did not press the charges arising out of the robbery of the third bank. The indictments had been secured in substantial part on the basis of grand jury testimony of an alleged confederate who had entered a plea of guilty to one of the indictments and had been granted immunity by federal and state officials with respect to other pending and potential charges.

In two…