Legal Opinion
Edward J. Barry v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 24, 1976No. 75--1659PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we are asked to decide whether the district judge who presided at the petitioners’ criminal trial contravened the mandatory disqualification statute, 1 whether there was prosecutorial misconduct warranting reversal in connection with the judge’s decision not to recuse himself, and whether the scope of the proceedings held in the district court in this collateral attack on the convictions was improperly restricted.
I
The prosecutions that led to the petition for habeas corpus presently before us arose out of a pervasive scheme of extortion involving the vice…
2Cases cited51 opinions
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3Cited by62 opinions
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