UNITED STATES v. SHUFORD

Nos. 71-1424, 71-1425.

454 F.2d 772 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. E. Graydon SHUFORD, Appellant. United States of America, Appellee, v. Herman S. JORDAN, Jr., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Lee Bailey, Boston, Mass. (N. Welch Morrisette, Jr., Columbia, S. C., Gerald Alch, Boston, Mass., Ralph C. Robinson, Jr., Columbia, S. C., on brief), for E. Graydon Shuford.

C. D. Hopkins, Jr., Hanahan, S. C. (Malcolm M. Crosland, Charleston, S. C., on brief), for Herman S. Jordan, Jr.

Marvin L. Smith and Robert G. Clawson, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys. (John K. Grisso, U. S. Atty., on brief), for United States.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, SOBELOFF, Senior Circuit Judge, and WINTER, Circuit Judge.


SOBELOFF, Senior Circuit Judge:

This case raises one of the problems sometimes encountered when two criminal defendants, each surrounded by a multitude of procedural protections, are tried jointly and the effectuation of one defendant's rights necessarily works an infringement of the rights of the other.

E. Graydon Shuford and Herman S. Jordan, Jr., appeal from their convictions under 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 1001, for (1) the knowing submission of a...

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