Legal Opinion
United States v. Calvin Griffin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 20, 1976No. 75--1543PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CASTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.
Calvin Griffin, Robert Russell, and Larry Carr were charged in a one-count indictment with knowingly possessing mail which had been stolen, taken, or abstracted from and out of the mail in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1708. 1 The three men waived their right to a trial by jury and were tried separately. Russell and Griffin were found guilty and Carr was acquitted. Only Griffin appeals.
Griffin contends on appeal that his conviction rests on evidence that was unlawfully seized from an apartment which he occupied at the time of his arrest. The district court denied…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Brown v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by125 opinions
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