WILKINSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 81-2080.

677 F.2d 998 (1982)

Tilden R. WILKINSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 27, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard I. Legum, Norfolk, Va. (Fine, Fine, Legum & Fine, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellant.

James A. Metcalfe, Asst. U. S. Atty., Norfolk, Va. (Elsie L. Munsell, U. S. Atty., John Franklin, III, Taylor, Walker & Adams, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before BUTZNER, RUSSELL and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges.


MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

We refer from time to time to a case as a hard one. We may mean that it is close and difficult to decide. Or we may mean, as we do here, that, while it is not so close, it is nevertheless difficult to decide because of its harsh impact on one of the parties. The other party to the case is innocent of any impropriety occasioning the hardship; whether others involved may have been equally free of criticism is a matter we need not address.<...

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