Legal Opinion
United States v. Jacques M. Schiffer
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 9, 1965No. 15886_1PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEICK, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court adjudging Appellant Schif-fer guilty of criminal contempt and imposing upon him a sentence of sixty days’ confinement and a fine of $1,000. The sentence was later corrected by striking therefrom the fine.
Schiffer was Thomas Ewing Parks’ attorney in the case of United States v. Hoffa, in which the defendants were tried and convicted for jury tampering. These convictions were affirmed by this Court. 349 F.2d 20 (1965). Immediately after the defendants in the Hoffa case were sentenced, the trial judge read into the record a…
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