UNITED STATES v. DOSS

No. 75-1463.

545 F.2d 548 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Vincent Moran DOSS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 18, 1976.

As Amended January 20, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Andrews, Erich W. Merrill, Memphis, Tenn., for defendant-appellant.

Thomas F. Turley, Jr., U.S. Atty., Memphis, Tenn., W. Hickman Ewing, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before EDWARDS, McCREE and MILLER, Circuit Judges.


EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

Involved in this case is a possible revival of a version of the English Star Chamber, an institution which helped produce the American Revolution. The question posed here is one left open by the very recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Mandujano, 425 U.S. 564, 96 S.Ct. 1768, 48 L.Ed.2d 212 (1976), a decision for which this court had waited before deciding our instant...

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