Legal Opinion
Jose Terrones Rios v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 26, 1958No. 15723_1PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.
Jose Terrones Rios appeals from his conviction for violating § 2 of the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, as amended, 21 U.S.C.A. § 174.
Rios contends that it was error to receive in evidence a package of narcotics which had been seized by city police, where a state court had supressed the same evidence, and acquitted, in a prosecution involving the identical incident.
The facts essential to a consideration of this contention are as follows: Los Angeles police officers, watching for possible illegal narcotics activity in a problem-area of the city, took under…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Weeks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Wolf v. ColoradoSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Jencks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Byars v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- People v. CahanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1955
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Bartkus v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Abbate v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Rios v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Billy Maurice Ogden v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1962
- United States v. Harry P. Hutul, Robert Sacks, Herbert Basan, Nancy Mitchell, and Vito LombardiCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1970
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