Legal Opinion
United States v. Layton
District Court, N.D. California
Decided March 6, 1981No. CR-80-416 RFPPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
PECKHAM, Chief Judge.
Laurence J. Layton, a.k.a. Larry Layton, has been indicted on four criminal counts arising from the events which occurred at the Port Kaituma airport in the nation of Guyana on November 18, 1978. Those events resulted in the death of Congressman Leo J. Ryan, then a member of the United States House of Representatives from the 11th Congressional District of California, and the wounding of Richard Dwyer, the Deputy Chief of Mission for the United States in the Republic of Guyana. The four counts of the indictment charge Mr. Layton with (1) conspiracy to murder a…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- United States v. BowmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
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3Cited by18 opinions
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- United States v. Armando BenitezCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
- United States v. Laurence John LaytonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
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