United States v. Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

PLATT, District Judge.

In this straightforward criminal case charging defendants with misbranding and adulterating apple juice products, defense counsel, in a brilliant display of imaginative creativity, have attempted in a series of pre-trial motions to convert rather simple allegations contained in the indictment herein into a complex maze of confusing theories based in large part upon their own conceptions of viable defenses. In order to replace everything into proper perspective we must summarize the indictment and analyze their multiple motions separately.

The Indictment