UNITED STATES v. HARP

No. 74-1810.

536 F.2d 601 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George Evans HARP, Edwin R. Breaux, Jean Orsini, Willard Joseph Martin, Don Garriga Chapman and Elvin Edsel Haddock, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 4, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Welch, Atlanta, Ga. (Court appointed), for Harp.

Dennis M. Hall, Decatur, Ga. (Court appointed), for Breaux.

Fred Filsoof, Atlanta, Ga. (Court appointed), for Orsini.

Marvin Soskin, Atlanta, Ga. (Court appointed), for Martin.

Roman A. DeVille, Atlanta, Ga. (Court appointed), for Haddock.

Bruce L. Whitmer, Atlanta, Ga. (Court appointed), for Chapman.

John W. Stokes, U. S. Atty., Stanley M. Baum, J. Robert Cooper, Asst. U. S. Attys., Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, GODBOLD and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The Supreme Court has remanded this criminal appeal with directions to reconsider our affirmances of the convictions of defendants Breaux and Harp for the crime of escape in light of the Court's intervening decision in United States v. Hale, 422 U.S. 171, 95 S.Ct. 2133, 45 L.Ed.2d 99 (1975).1 Notwithstanding what portent Hale may have held, the recent decision in Doyle v. Ohio...

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