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Argued February 20, 1953.
Decided June 18, 1953.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mr. Albert J. Ahern, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. James J. Laughlin and Henry Lincoln Johnson, Jr., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.
Messrs. William Hitz and Lewis A. Carroll, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Charles M. Irelan, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time of argument, and Mr. Joseph M. Howard, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time brief was filed, were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., Mr. George Morris Fay, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time record was filed, and Mr. William R. Glendon, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time of argument, also entered appearances for appellee.
Before EDGERTON, WILBUR K. MILLER and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.
WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.
This is a criminal case, in which the central issue is whether the appellant was denied a fair trial by reason of the tactics of the prosecution.
Bennie Caldwell was indicted in mid-1950 for attempting to "reach" the jurors in the criminal trial of another person.1 He was tried and convicted in the following May. He then moved "for a judgment of acquittal or for a new trial" upon the ground, among others...
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