Legal Opinion
Renaldo Ferrari, John Orman Knight, Jack Cherpakov and Lester Darneille v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 18, 1957No. 15282_1PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEMMON, Circuit Judge.
In a gumshoe and cloak-and-dagger atmosphere, the record in this case discloses the devious machinations of those who traffic in the dried juice of the poppy.
A Federal agent posing as an investment broker, who used a New York gangster as a reference, and who was warned that if he “did wrong by Red” he would “end up in an alley”; 3 a.m. breakfasts in the G-man’s apartment, which was wired for sound — with two ladies of San Francisco’s night life, endowed with the rhythmic names of “June and Jyrene”, as pickup guests; and, finally, during the early hours of an unlucky…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Quercia v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- United States v. CompagnaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1944
- Bucher v. KrauseCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1953
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3Cited by48 opinions
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- Benjamin Dranow v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1962
- United States v. Manuel Mendez-RodriguezCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1971
- State v. KishSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1982
- Robert Lewis Eason and Kenneth Lamoyne Nowlin v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1960
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