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WILSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 20887.

391 F.2d 460 (1968)

Robert WILSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 18, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Herbert J. Miller, Jr., Washington, D. C. (appointed by this court), for appellant. Mr. Joseph S. McCarthy, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this court), was on the brief for appellant.

Mr. Theodore Wieseman, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker and David N. Ellenhorn, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FAHY, Senior Circuit Judge, and WRIGHT and LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judges.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the unusual situation of the Government conceding a claim which is usually hotly contested — that the appellant suffers from permanent retrograde amnesia as a result of which he has no recollection of any of the events alleged in the indictment. The question raised on appeal is whether it is a denial of due process or of the right to effective assistance of counsel to try a defendant suffering from such...

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