Legal Opinion
United States v. John Martin
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 10, 1980No. 79-5097PublishedCited by 206 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
Would you buy a used car from these men ?
So defense counsel asked the jury, not entirely rhetorically, in his closing argument in this case, after having attempted to show that two important government witnesses, John Krai and Ismael Rodriquez, were not credible or reliable. Nevertheless, the jury bought; it convicted John Martin under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) for the robbery of the Atlantic Federal Savings and Loan in Boca Raton, Florida.
On appeal, Martin asks a related question: Did the affidavit which was submitted to the United States Magistrate and which consisted…
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