Legal Opinion

United States v. George Davis and William E. Newsome

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided September 22, 1986No. 86-8154PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Non-Argument Calendar.

1Per curiam

Appellants George Davis and William Newsome were convicted of various federal charges related to the theft, interstate transportation, and sale of a tractor-trailer rig and its contents. On appeal, they contest the admission into evidence of recorded telephone conversations, the instruction given to the jury regarding their entrapment defenses, and the adequacy of proof of the monetary value of the contents of the truck. They further challenge as improperly multiplicitous various combinations of the several counts for which they were indicted, convicted, and sentenced.

We reject appellants’…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  2. Albernaz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  3. Bell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
  4. United States v. Nelson BellCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
  5. United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1952

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. United States v. Terrance RyanCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2002
  2. United States v. KingCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1996
  3. United States v. Robert GrinkiewiczCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1989
  4. O'Ferrell v. United StatesDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1997
  5. United States v. Thomas Scott WilsonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1993

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