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UNITED STATES v. PHILLIPS

Crim. No. 79-41.

515 F.Supp. 758 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, v. Melissa Ann PHILLIPS, a/k/a Melissa Edwards, a/k/a Melissa Ann Phillips Smith.

United States District Court, E. D. Kentucky, Covington Division.

June 12, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Arehart, Asst. U. S. Atty., Lexington, Ky., for plaintiff.

Kurt Philipps, Spalding, Grause, Robinson, Arnzen, Philipps & Arnzen, Covington, Ky., for defendant.

BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

FACTS

This dramatic and unusual case, which was one of the most spellbinding that this writer has ever seen enacted on the forensic stage, gave rise to several evidentiary rulings which are the subject of this opinion.

The protagonists were the defendant Melissa Phillips and her husband Marion "Buster" Phillips. The ingenue's role was played by Melissa, who was 18 years old at the time of the...

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