UNITED STATES v. ROOT

No. 20360.

366 F.2d 377 (1966)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant-Cross Appellee, v. Gladys Towles ROOT and George A. Forde, Appellees-Cross Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 25, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Manuel L. Real, U. S. Atty., John K. Van de Kamp, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chief, Crim. Div., J. Brin Schulman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Asst. Chief, Crim. Div., Donald A. Fareed, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chief Trial Attorney, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Joseph A. Ball, Joseph D. Mullender, Jr., Ball, Hunt & Hart, Long Beach, Cal., for appellee George A. Forde.

Morris Lavine, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee Gladys Towles Root.

Before JERTBERG and DUNIWAY, Circuit Judges, and GOODWIN, District Judge.


GOODWIN, District Judge:

A trial, sometimes referred to as a "search for the truth", was held in United ed States District Court for the Southern District of California, Central Division, resulting in conviction of Joseph Clyde Amsler and John William Irwin for violation of several laws of the United States, one of which was 18 U.S.C. § 1201, which section forbids the interstate transportation of a kidnap victim. This...

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