UNITED STATES v. THOMPSON

No. 82-5201.

716 F.2d 248 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Neville Bruce THOMPSON, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack B. Crawley, Jr., Rocky Mount, N.C. (Spruill, Lane, McCotter & Jolly, Rocky Mount, N.C., on brief), for appellant.

Margaret I. Miller, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., (Samuel T. Currin, U.S. Atty., Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, WIDENER, Circuit Judge, and BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


ALBERT V. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Indicted for bank robbery,1 appellant Neville Bruce Thompson was found guilty by a jury in the Federal Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and sentenced to imprisonment for sixteen years. He now appeals, primarily asserting that certain testimony allowed at trial violated his privilege against disclosure of marital communications. Although we conclude that the trial court erred in permitting...

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