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UNITED STATES v. CLARKSON

No. 77-2372.

567 F.2d 270 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Robert Barnwell CLARKSON, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 15, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward V. Atkinson, Sumter, S. C., for appellant.

Eric Wm. Ruschky, Asst. U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C. (Thomas E. Lydon, Jr., U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and WIDENER, Circuit Judge.

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

The petitioner appeals from a judgment of contempt. The contempt arose in connection with the prosecution of the petitioner, an attorney, under an indictment charging him with fraud in the preparation and filing of claims for tax refunds on behalf of numerous taxpayers. In interviewing and taking statements from the taxpayers whose claims for tax refunds were involved in the alleged fraud, the Government became aware that the petitioner...

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