UNITED STATES v. ALGIE

No. 80-5386.

667 F.2d 569 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Eugene Andrew Anthony ALGIE, Melvin Bridewell, Richard Kent Skinner and Ruby Humphrey, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided January 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Molloy, U. S. Atty., Lexington, Ky., William C. Bryson, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Louis DeFalaise, Covington, Ky., for Skinner.

Thomas C. Smith, Covington, Ky., for Humphrey.

Richard Slukich, Covington, Ky., for Algie.

R. Michael Murphy, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Lexington, Ky., H. Louis Sirkin, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Bridewell.

Before EDWARDS, Chief Judge, KENNEDY, Circuit Judge, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.


GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Chief Judge.

This case presents a clash between the laudable desire of a District Judge to manage his docket efficiently and the delays in that process which are mandated by the insistence of the United States Attorney in this case on strict adherence to the language of the Jencks Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3500 (1976). The relevant section of the Jencks Act is as follows:

(a) In any criminal prosecution brought by the United States...

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