U.S. v. CRAFT

No. 96-5180.

105 F.3d 1123 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James Wiley CRAFT, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 3, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick H. Molloy, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Lexington, KY, Daniel S. Goodman, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Appellate Section, Washington, DC (argued and briefed), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lawrence R. Webster, Pikeville, KY (argued), Daniel F. Dotson, Whitesburg, KY (briefed), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: KEITH, MERRITT, and SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judges.


MERRITT, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which SUHRHEINRICH, J., joined. KEITH, J. (pp. 1129-31), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

This criminal appeal raises statute of limitation issues. It is an appeal by the Justice Department from the grant of a motion to dismiss two counts of a six-count indictment. District Judge Wilhoit in a well-reasoned opinion dismissed Count I (conspiracy to obstruct justice in violation...

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