United States v. Stern

FREDERICK van PELT BRYAN, District Judge:

Defendant Willbach moves, pursuant to Rule 41(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, for the suppression as evidence and return to him of certain papers taken from his office by special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the time of his arrest on June 18, 1963.

The petitioner is a certified public accountant. A warrant dated June 17, 1963, was issued for his arrest based on a complaint dated June 13, 1963, alleging that he and Mortimer Stern, an agent of the Internal Revenue Service, had conspired to defraud the United States by…