Legal Opinion

Greatreaks v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided March 26, 1954No. 13964_1PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POPE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was convicted of the crime of offering money to a police officer with intent to influence the latter’s official conduct as a member of the Anchorage Police Department. Alaska Compiled Laws Ann.1949, § 65-7-4. Upon this appeal appellant first argues that the court was in error in rejecting certain evidence offered for the purpose of showing the bias and hostility of the prosecution’s principal witness. He also contends that the court erred in refusing certain instructions on his defense of entrapment.

At the outset we note that appellant has wholly disregarded…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. United States v. PisanoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1951
  2. Meeks v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1950
  3. Lane v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1944

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Jesse James Gilbert v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1966
  2. Heyne v. CarusoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
  3. Herbert William Chipman v. James Mercer, Chief Probation OfficerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
  4. Walter Wynn, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1967
  5. United States v. Marvin Hayutin and Leon NashCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1968

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