UNITED STATES v. RAMSEY

No. 84-1544.

761 F.2d 603 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cecil Leon RAMSEY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

May 7, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ed Edmondson (Thomas H. Alford with him on briefs) of Edmondson, Alford & Edmondson, Muskogee, Okl., for defendant-appellant.

Donn F. Baker, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Gary L. Richardson, U.S. Atty., with him on brief), E.D. Okl., Muskogee, Okl., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HOLLOWAY and McKAY, Circuit Judges, and KANE, District Judge.


McKAY, Circuit Judge.

We are called upon in this case to decide the proper weight to be given to a recanted recantation. The defendant was tried and convicted of hiring one Jackson to burn down a store. The linchpin of the government's case against the defendant was Mr. Jackson's trial testimony that the defendant paid him to burn the store down. Prior to the trial Mr. Jackson had told the defendant's son that the defendant did not have anything to do with the fire...

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