UNITED STATES v. WELLS

No. 84-1864.

766 F.2d 12 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John Jacob WELLS, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 26, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark J. Kadish, Atlanta, Ga., with whom Rosalyn S. Kadish, Kadish & Kadish, P.C., Atlanta, Ga., Harrison T. Slaughter, Jr. and Harrison T. Slaughter, Jr., P.A., Orlando, Fla., were on brief for defendant, appellant.

F.M. Terison, Portland, Me., with whom Richard S. Cohen, U.S. Atty., William H. Browder, Asst. U.S. Atty., and Margaret D. McGaughey, Asst. U.S. Atty., Portland, Me., were on brief for appellee.

Before BOWNES, Circuit Judge, VAN DUSEN, Senior Circuit Judge, and BREYER, Circuit Judge.


VAN DUSEN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendant, John Jacob Wells, was indicted for violating the federal bail-jumping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3150 (1982).1 The indictment resulted from defendants' failure to appear at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sandstone, Minnesota (FCI-Sandstone), to begin serving a five-year prison sentence. Following a jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of Maine, defendant was...

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