UNITED STATES v. HOULTIN

No. 76-4107.

566 F.2d 1027 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Martin Willard HOULTIN and Kenneth B. Phillips, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied April 10, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph S. Chagra, El Paso, Tex., for Houltin.

William M. Ravkind, Dallas, Tex., for Phillips.

Jamie C. Boyd, U. S. Atty., LeRoy Morgan Jahn, Jeremiah Handy, Asst. U. S. Attys., San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, GEWIN and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 10, 1978.

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

This direct criminal appeal presents two issues. First, does the taint from illegal wiretaps extend to the evidence provided by the testimony of codefendants who, without standing to object to the wiretaps, were convicted as a result thereof and then testified under a grant of use immunity against defendants who did have standing? Second, does the Double Jeopardy Clause of the...

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