UNITED STATES v. SARNO

No. 76-1057.

596 F.2d 404 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Jay SARNO, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

May 7, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Semenza, U. S. Atty., Las Vegas, Nev., James T. Duff, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Harry E. Claiborne, Las Vegas, Nev., for appellee.

Before BARNES and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges, and REAL, District Judge.


BARNES, Senior Circuit Judge:

The issue on this appeal is whether defendant Jay Sarno ("Sarno"), who was acquitted of bribing agents of the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") by the trial judge following the jury's inability to reach a verdict, is entitled, on the basis of double jeopardy and collateral estoppel, to the dismissal by the same trial judge of a subsequent perjury indictment which alleged that the defendant had testified falsely at the prior trial.

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