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UNITED STATES v. CLIFFORD

No. 82-5394.

704 F.2d 86 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. CLIFFORD, Russell, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 8, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Brysh (argued), Asst. U.S. Atty., J. Alan Johnson, U.S. Atty., W. Thomas McGough, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant.

John Devlin (argued), Robert McClenahan, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee.

Before HUNTER and GARTH, Circuit Judges, and STERN, District Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

JAMES HUNTER, III, Circuit Judge:

In a prosecution for mailing threatening letters in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 876 (1976), the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled that the government could not introduce correspondence in the defendant's handwriting in order to show stylistic similarities between that correspondence and the threatening letters at issue. United States v. Clifford...

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