King v. United States

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

This is a case which reminds us that conflict between powerful competing human emotions is not unique to persons of great renown, such as the King of England who gave up his throne for love, but also visits with more humble folk. Closing argument was about to begin in what had been, until then, a rather conventional two-defendant jury trial involving the sale of “love” or “loveboat” 1 to an undercover police officer when the proceedings took a dramatic and startling turn. The appellant Darryl A. Manning, who had previously declined to testify, suddenly offered through…