UNITED STATES v. HUGHES

Nos. 24101, 24120, 24121, 24147.

388 F.2d 236 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Petitioner, v. Honorable Sarah T. HUGHES, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Respondent. GIFFORD-HILL-AMERICAN, INC., Petitioner, v. Honorable Sarah T. HUGHES, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Respondent. UNITED CONCRETE PIPE CORPORATION and Lloyd R. Earl, Petitioners, v. Honorable Sarah T. HUGHES, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Respondent. UNITED STATES of America, Petitioner, v. Honorable Ted CABOT, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 5, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 24101:

Thomas S. Howard, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Chicago, Ill., Howard E. Shapiro, Ronald B. Lewis, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Stanley E. Neely, William P. Fonville, Dallas, Tex., Irwin F. Woodland, Laughlin E. Waters, William L. Scott, Los Angeles, Cal., Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely, Dallas, Tex., Nossaman, Waters, Scott, Krueger & Riordan, Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent Gifford-Hill-American, Inc.

No. 24120:

Stanley E. Neely, Dallas, Tex., Laughlin E. Waters, William L. Scott, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner.

Irwin F. Woodland, Los Angeles, Cal., William P. Fonville, Dallas, Tex., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Carl D. Lawson, Los Angeles, Cal., for cross-petitioners.

No. 24121:

Irwin F. Woodland, Los Angeles, Cal., William P. Fonville, Dallas, Tex., for petitioners.

Stanley E. Neely, Dallas, Tex., for respondent.

No. 24147:

Howard Shapiro, Jerome A. Hochberg, Ronald Lewis, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

James A. Dixon, Miami, Fla., James E. Hastings, Chicago, Ill., Walter Humkey, Miami, Fla., Chester Bedell, C. Harris Dittmar, Jacksonville, Fla., Thomas S. Trantham, Jr., Dwight Sullivan, James Knight, Daniel S. Pearson, Don G. Nicholson, Joseph A. Perkins, Miami, Fla., G. Duane Vieth, Washington, D. C., H. Blair White, Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and COLEMAN and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge.

These are four cases, three from Texas and one from Florida, presenting essentially the same problem — the application of F.R.Crim.P. 16(a) (3) (as amended Feb. 28, 1966, effective July 1, 1966). See 39 F.R.D. 168 et seq. Specifically, the question is narrowed down to whether in allowing production of the "recorded testimony of a defendant" the term "defendant" includes (1) an executive officer of a corporate defendant, (2) an employee...

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