Legal Opinion
United States v. Wunsch
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 24, 1996No. 93-50671PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEAVY, Circuit Judge:
In this case we are called upon to determine whether the district court properly sanctioned an attorney for conduct that occurred outside the courtroom and after the attorney had ceased to represent any of the parties involved with the proceedings before the court. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.
FACTS AND PRIOR PROCEEDINGS
This matter arose during the course of a criminal tax prosecution brought by the United States against three defendants, William and Beverly Wunsch and their daughter, Teri Sowers. Shortly after Sowers’s arrest by federal agents on March 18,…
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