UNITED STATES v. CLARK

Crim. A. No. 23,067.

123 F.Supp. 608 (1954)

UNITED STATES v. CLARK.

United States District Court S. D. California, Central Division.

August 4, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., by Norman W. Neukom, and Richard A. Lavine, Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., and George Willi, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., Tax Division, for plaintiff.

Charles H. Carr. William K. Rasmussen, Los Angeles, Cal., J. A. Donnelley, San Diego, Cal., for defendant.


YANKWICH, Chief Judge.

Whenever the Government and the defendant in a criminal case waive a jury, they are entitled to not just a verdict one way or the other, but to the reasons behind it. This conforms to the Canons of Judicial Ethics of the American Bar Association (Canon 19) and to a practice which I have followed consistently.1 So in what follows I shall set forth the problem involved in this case and the solution arrived at.

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