Legal Opinion
United States v. Major Becton, Stanley Becton, Robert Jones, Robert Pollack, Vincent Damien and Barry Mirojnick
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 18, 1980No. 80-1630PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
This expedited appeal presents two issues, a jurisdictional one of broad interest and importance and an evidentiary one of interest to the appellants only. Since the need for us to consider the latter depends on how we resolve the former, we discuss it first.
Appellants’ trial on drug charges resulted in a thoroughly 1 hung jury and the consequent declaration of a mistrial. Motions for judgment of acquittal at the close of the prosecution’s case, renewed after the jury’s discharge, were partly granted but in main denied. When the remaining counts were set for retrial,…
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