FERRARI v. UNITED STATES

No. 15282.

244 F.2d 132 (1957)

Renaldo FERRARI, John Orman Knight, Jack Cherpakov and Lester Darneille, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 18, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry P. Glassman, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant Ferrari.

B. Michael Lewton, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant Cherpakov.

Lester Darneille and John Orman Knight, in pro. per.

Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., John Lockley, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before LEMMON, FEE, and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges.


LEMMON, Circuit Judge.

In a gumshoe and cloak-and-dagger atmosphere, the record in this case discloses the devious machinations of those who traffic in the dried juice of the poppy.

A Federal agent posing as an investment broker, who used a New York gangster as a reference, and who was warned that if he "did wrong by Red" he would "end up in an alley"; 3 a.m. breakfasts in the G-man's apartment, which was wired for sound — with two ladies of San Francisco...

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