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UNITED STATES v. SCHIFF

No. 49, Docket 79-1139.

612 F.2d 73 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Irwin A. SCHIFF, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 12, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas Gilmore, Westport, Conn. (Raymond W. Ganim, Stratford, Conn., of counsel), for appellant.

Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Atty., D. Connecticut, New Haven, Conn. (Michael Hartmere, Asst. U.S. Atty., New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for appellee.

Before LUMBARD, FRIENDLY and GURFEIN, Circuit Judges.

GURFEIN, Circuit Judge:

This case raises an issue never before considered in a federal court of appeals: the question of the admissibility in evidence in a jury trial on a criminal information of the videotape of a "talk show" which includes the opinions of unsworn strangers on the very issues before the jury. Appellant Irwin A. Schiff, a self-proclaimed iconoclast in the field of federal income taxation, and a prolix writer and lecturer on the subject of money, appeals...

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