United States v. John Cosmo Prevatt and John H. Bennett, Jr.

This appeal is from the denial of appellant’s Rule 41(e), Fed.R.Crim.P., motion to suppress evidence. 1 The issue involved is whether appellants’ assertion of the Fifth Amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination prohibits the use in state criminal actions of property obtained by federal agents pursuant to a federal statute subsequently held voidable in Marchetti v. United States, 1968, 390 U.S. 39, 88 S.Ct. 697, 19 L.Ed.2d 889 and Grosso v. United States, 1968, 390 U.S. 62, 88 S.Ct. 709, 19 L.Ed.2d 906. 2 We affirm the denial of appellants’ motion and hold that resort to the federal…