UNITED STATES v. LORENZO

No. 77-1856.

570 F.2d 294 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George Horacio LORENZO, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

February 21, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Tryon, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, Ariz., for defendant-appellant.

W. Ronald Jennings, Asst. U. S. Atty., Phoenix, Ariz., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TRASK, WALLACE and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


WALLACE, Circuit Judge:

Lorenzo was convicted of possessing and attempting to pass counterfeit United States currency in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 471 (1970). He raises four questions on this appeal: Whether there was a violation of his due process rights when a government agent testified that Lorenzo remained silent in the face of an accusatory question during a post-Miranda warnings interrogation; whether the granting of a mistrial and subsequent retrial...

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