UNITED STATES v. KIFFER

No. 576, Docket 72-2263.

477 F.2d 349 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John C. KIFFER et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 18, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Scribner, New York City (Aaron Jaffe and Hubert M. Cunniffe, New York City, Jerome Karp, Brooklyn, on the brief), for appellants.

Robert Clarey, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Robert A. Morse, U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., L. Kevin Sheridan, Asst. U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.

Before ANDERSON, FEINBERG and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.


FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

Appellants John Kiffer, James Kehoe and Robert Harmash mount a broadside attack on the constitutionality of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 ("the Act"), 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq., as it applies to marihuana. Appellants were arrested in December 1971, while in possession of approximately two tons of marihuana stored in a warehouse, part of which Kiffer was in the process of delivering by truck to a police...

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