MARTIN v. UNITED STATES

No. 74-1235.

517 F.2d 906 (1975)

Walter MARTIN, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 2, 1975.

Certiorari Denied October 6, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth J. Bini, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Richard E. Coughlin, Asst. U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., for appellee.

Before GIBSON, Chief Judge, and HEANEY and ROSS, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied October 6, 1975. See 96 S.Ct. 105.

GIBSON, Chief Judge.

This appeal presents the question of whether a federal district judge has the power to impose a civil contempt sentence upon a witness serving a prior criminal sentence and thus suspend the service of that criminal sentence during the contempt confinement. Petitioner, Walter Martin, Jr., was convicted January 3, 1973, of two counts of distribution of heroin and received concurrent sentences...

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