UNITED STATES v. LITTON SYSTEMS, INC.

Crim. No. S78-0031(R).

557 F.Supp. 568 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. LITTON SYSTEMS, INC. d/b/a Ingalls Nuclear Shipbuilding Division, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, S.D.

March 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry Davis, Asst. U.S. Atty., Biloxi, Miss., Elsie L. Munsell, U.S. Atty., E.D. Va., Joseph A. Fisher, III, and James A. Metcalf, Asst. U.S. Attys., E.D. Va., Frank W. Dunham, Jr., Sp. U.S. Atty., E.D. Va., Alexandria, Va., for plaintiff.

Bruce W. Kauffman, Stephen J. Mathes, Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman, Philadelphia, Pa., Edmund L. Brunini, George P. Hewes, III, Charles P. Adams, Jr., Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, Miss., for defendants.


REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

DUPLANTIER, District Judge.

Litton Systems, Inc. (Litton), indicted in April of 1977 for allegedly making a false claim against the United States government (18 U.S.C. § 287)1, has filed a motion to dismiss the indictment because of "inexcusable and prejudicial prosecutorial delay" and the "loss and destruction of exculpatory evidence." Litton contends that...

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