FORD v. UNITED STATES

No. 20299.

379 F.2d 123 (1967)

Fred J. FORD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 9, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Murdaugh Stuart Madden, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this court), for appellant.

Mr. Elihu Leifer, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Messrs. David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Nicholas S. Nunzio, Asst. U. S. Attys., and Franklin E. White, Atty., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, EDGERTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.


J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents again1 the vexing problem of counsel for co-defendants in a criminal case. Specifically we are presented with the question of the responsibility of the trial judge with respect to the retention or assignment of single counsel to represent co-defendants on trial. In Glasser v. United States, 315 U.S. 60, 70, 62 S.Ct. 457, 465, 86 L.Ed. 680 (1942), in which...

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