Legal Opinion
Kotteakos v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 10, 1946No. Nos. 457, 458PublishedCited by 7,189 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rutledge
The only question is whether petitioners have suffered substantial prejudice from being convicted of a single general conspiracy by evidence which the Government admits proved not one conspiracy but some eight or more different ones of the same sort executed through a common key figure, Simon Brown. Petitioners were convicted under the general conspiracy section of the Criminal Code, 18 U. S. C. § 88, of conspiring to violate the provisions of the National Housing Act, 12 U. S. C. §§ 1702,1703,1715, 1731. The judgments were affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals. 151 F. 2d 170. We granted…
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