BRUNO v. UNITED STATES

No. 300.

308 U.S. 287 (1939)

BRUNO v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 4, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Samuel B. Wasserman, with whom Mr. M. Michael Edelstein was on the brief, for petitioner.

Assistant Attorney General Rogge, with whom Solicitor General Jackson and Messrs. William W. Barron, George F. Kneip, Fred E. Strine, and W. Marvin Smith were on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

In affirming the conviction of Jerry Bruno, who, with eighty-seven others, was convicted of a conspiracy to violate the narcotic laws, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, dealt with an important question in the administration of federal criminal justice in such a way as to lead us to grant certiorari.

Some of Bruno's co-defendants took the...

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