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NAPLES v. UNITED STATES

No. 20312.

382 F.2d 465 (1967)

John A. NAPLES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 25, 1967.

Petition for Rehearing Denied October 19, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., and Daniel H. Pollitt, Washington, D. C. (both appointed by this court), for appellant.

Mr. Charles L. Owen, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee. Messrs. James A. Strazzella and John A. Terry, Asst. U. S. Attys., also entered appearances for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and McGOWAN and ROBINSON, Circuit Judges.

Petition for Rehearing En Banc Denied October 19, 1967.

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal we deal with a crime which was committed in 1958. It appears to have involved an unoffending victim who met her death at the hands of a marginal human being.1 The tortuous course the case has taken for nearly nine full years must, in the minds of lay observers at least, raise serious doubts as to the efficacy of our system of criminal...

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