Legal Opinion
United States v. Amos Lane Bridges
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 8, 1974No. 73-1796PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KILEY, Senior Circuit Judge.
Defendant Bridges was convicted, by a jury, of unlawfully possessing and using an unregistered dynamite bomb to damage a building, in violation of 26 U. S.C. § 5861(c) and (d) and 18 U.S.C. § 844 (i). 1 We reverse the conviction and remand for a new trial.
We recite the evidence in the light most favorable to the government. At approximately 9:30 p. m. on April 8, 1972, a building used by the Teamsters Union, of which Bridges was a member, was bombed in East St. Louis, Illinois. There had been a controversy between Bridges and the Union over non-payment of dues and…
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