Legal Opinion
Albert D. Dorsey v. United States of America, Paul T. Wright, Jr. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 2, 1967No. 20130_1PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:
The appellants in these two cases were tried together under an indictment charging violations of two federal narcotics statutes. 26 U.S.C. § 4704(a) (1964); 21 U.S.C. § 174 (1964). Both were convicted as charged; and these separate appeals pose essentially the same issues. The principal one has to do with the admissibility into evidence of narcotics which, so it is said, were obtained by means of improper police action. A second claim is that reversal is necessitated by an alleged procedural lapse which resulted in the jury’s hearing that one of the appellants had a…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Carroll v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Ker v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- United States v. RabinowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Silverman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- United States v. LeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
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3Cited by51 opinions
- United States v. Orson G. White, United States of America v. Lawrence AndersonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981
- Arthur Earl Marshall v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Junius S. Washington v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
- United States v. Gilberto SantanaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
- James O. Hinton, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
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