UNITED STATES v. PECORA

Crim. No. 80-508.

584 F.Supp. 1 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America v. Frances PECORA.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

April 13, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Volz, U.S. Atty., Michael Schatzow, Pauline F. Hardin, Asst. U.S. Attys., New Orleans, La., for U.S.

James McPherson, New Orleans, La., for defendant.


CASSIBRY, Senior District Judge:

The defendant, Frances Pecora, has moved for return of property placed in evidence at her trial. The evidence in question is some $61,000.00 in cash which the defendant acknowledges was paid in order to "obtain favorable consideration" from state law enforcement officials. The motion before the Court, therefore, raises the audacious, if not entirely unprecedented, question of whether a defendant, convicted on charges arising out of...

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