Legal Opinion
United States v. Lawrence Bey and Willie Cruso Free
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 1, 1982No. 80-7608PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge:
Lawrence Bey and Willie Cruso Free were each convicted of one count of mutiny and two counts of assault on a federal officer, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1792 (1976) and 18 U.S.C. § 111 (1976), respectively, arising out of an altercation between the defendants and corrections officers during their confinement in the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia. Defendants claim that their conduct did not, as a matter of law, constitute mutiny, and that the trial judge erred in refusing to adopt two of defendants’ requests to charge, in using the form he used for the jury’s…
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