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UNITED STATES v. AWKARD

Nos. 77-2577, 77-2579, 77-2538, 77-2578 and 77-2623.

597 F.2d 667 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. George L. AWKARD, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John Wright WILLIAMS, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Clarence HINNANT, Jr., Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Paul Milton LANEY, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Richard Lafayette THOMPSON, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

April 23, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard W. Gillingham, Los Angeles, Cal., Alvin S. Michaelson, Beverly Hills, Cal., for appellants Williams and Awkard.

Curtis B. Rappe, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for the U. S.

Morton H. Boren, Los Angeles, Cal., Michael D. Sobel, Beverly Hills, Cal., for appellants Hinnant and Laney.

Elliott L. Aheroni, Beverly Hills, Cal., for appellant Thompson.

Before GOODWIN and TANG, Circuit Judges, and EAST, District Judge.

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

Five defendants, convicted of a prison murder, appeal. They assert, among other assignments, that the court erred in permitting a government witness to testify about events recalled only after hypnosis, and in permitting the medical expert who hypnotized the witness to testify in a manner prejudicial to the defendants.

The government witness, Hackney, was one of several inmates who had stabbed...

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