UNITED STATES v. PINALTO

No. 84-2247.

771 F.2d 457 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Gary PINALTO, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

August 27, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Rosenthal, Chief, Appellate Section, Crim. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Layn R. Phillips, U.S. Atty., N.D. Okl., and Keith Ward, Asst. U.S. Atty., for the N.D. Okl., Tulsa, Okl., with him on briefs), for plaintiff-appellant.

David Nelson, Broken Arrow, Okl., for defendant-appellee.

Before MOORE, BREITENSTEIN and DOYLE, Circuit Judges.


BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal by the government under 18 U.S.C. § 3731 presents the question of whether certain conversations and tapes which the government intended to offer in the trial of the defendant, Pinalto, are admissible in evidence. We reverse.

On April 4, 1984, the Grand Jury indicted defendant-appellee Pinalto and Orsack. On May 2, 1984, a superseding indictment was filed. It was based on various crimes arising out of the expenditure...

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