Legal Opinion
United States v. Sherman
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 14, 1978No. Nos. 78-2492, 78-2493PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TANG, Circuit Judge.
This opinion explains the circumstances under which this court issued its order of July 24, 1978 granting petitioner’s application for emergency relief, and the reasons such relief was appropriate.
On July 12, 1978, a jury in the Western District of Washington returned a guilty verdict against John William Sherman and Therese Ann Coupez. Sherman and Coupez had been accused of armed bank robbery, and each had admitted the acts charged in the indictment, but each claimed that the acts were justified based on political principles. During the course of the trial, Coupez had…
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