UNITED STATES v. EMERY

No. 75-1420.

541 F.2d 887 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John Edward EMERY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 24, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur D. Serota, Springfield, Mass., for appellant.

James E. O'Neil, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., with whom James N. Gabriel, U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.


McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

The central issue in this case, the propriety of the government's use of an electronic beeper without a warrant, comes before us in a rather unusual factual context. On September 13, 1975, a jury found appellant guilty on a four-count indictment which charged violations of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846, 963 and 18 U.S.C. § 2. (The same jury found appellant's codefendant not guilty.) The crimes of which appellant was convicted all...

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