Legal Opinion
United States v. James Burke, Louis Lopez and Henry Hill, United States of America v. Raul Charbonier and Luis Charbonier
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 9, 1974No. 72-3742, 73-1045PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
On appeal from their conviction for various gambling and extortion offenses, appellants raise issues of sufficiency of the evidence, admission of inadmissible hearsay, denial of the right to confrontation, failure to sever the trial of Burke, Hill and Lopez from the trial of Raul and Luis Charbonier, prosecutorial misconduct, improper jury instructions, and collateral estoppel. Concluding that their contentions are meritless, we affirm the convictions.
In November, 1970, the United States indicted James Burke, Henry Hill, Louis Lopez, Raul Charbonier and Luis Charbonier 1 on…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Abbate v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- James L. Byrd v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Florida Division of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
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3Cited by32 opinions
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