United States v. Edward Sawyer

This appeal from a narcotics conviction 1 is based upon two questions asked by the prosecuting attorney in his cross-examination of the defendant-appellant. After timely objections to the first question had been overruled and to the second question sustained, the jury was instructed by the court immediately, and again in the charge to the jury, to disregard any inferences from the questions. Defendant’s timely motion for a mistrial based upon the two questions was denied.

Prior to the commencement on January 24, 1972, of the trial in this case, defendant entered a plea of guilty in the New…