COLEMAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 17444.

317 F.2d 891 (1963)

Tony A. COLEMAN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 19, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John W. Kern, III, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Cecil A. Beasley, Jr., Washington, D. C. (both appointed by this court) was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. William C. Weitzel, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WASHINGTON, DANAHER and BURGER, Circuit Judges.


DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

This case presents an attack upon rulings by the trial judge as to the admissibility of evidence. Two phases are involved, the first dealing with an oral admission after arrest upon adequate probable cause.1 The other had to do with earlier and totally unrelated offenses as to which the police had no evidence of complicity by the appellant except oral admissions and a confession elicited during interrogation after...

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