Legal Opinion
United States v. Charles M. Mount
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 20, 1990No. 88-1515PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.
The defendant, Charles Merrill Mount, is an art historian and former portrait painter of some note. He has been convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2314 of transporting in interstate commerce rare historical documents, knowing they were stolen from the Library of Congress and the National Archives.
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On July 15, 1987, Mr. Mount wrote to Goodspeed’s, an antiquarian book shop located on Beacon Hill, Boston, offering to sell a collection of letters and other documents written by the American artist, James McNeill Whistler, plus two other letters concerning Whistler, one of…
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