U.S. v. JONES

No. 86-5142.

818 F.2d 1119 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thelma Jean JONES; Bobby Lee Penny, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Ernest Booth, Dept. of Justice (Samuel T. Currin, U.S. Atty., Kieran Shanahan, Asst. U.S. Atty., Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Dean Robert Davis, Wilmington, N.C., for defendant-appellee Penny.

J.H. Corpening, II, Wilmington, N.C., for defendant-appellee Jones.

Before HALL and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, and TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Sitting by Designation.


TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judge.

The United States ("government") appeals from an order entered September 15, 1986 in the Eastern District of North Carolina, W. Earl Britt, Chief District Judge, granting the motions of Thelma Jean Jones and Bobby Lee Penny ("Jones" and "Penny" or, jointly, "appellees") to suppress certain statements made by them to two agents of the United States Secret Service ("the agents"). The court held that, when Jones and Penny were interrogated...

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