Richard E. Leigh v. United States

This case involves the forging and uttering of three small checks. The defendant has already served over two *885years in jail awaiting disposition of these charges, and the time served will not be credited against his sentence of 20 months to five years.1

Leigh was taken into custody by District of Columbia police in Fairfax, Virginia. Instead of being brought before “the nearest available commissioner” for instruction as to his constitutional rights as required by Rule 40(a), F.R. Cr.P., he was taken to the District of Columbia police headquarters, where he was questioned for over an hour and,…