D.C. Circuit· 4/30/1953

Rigsbee v. United States

Citations

204 F.2d 70
92 U.S. App. D.C. 244
1953 U.S. App. LEXIS 2397

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holding that an acquittal differs from innocence and that the former would be insufficient by itself to obtain a certificate signifying the latter
district court’s COI decision can be disturbed only “in a case in which the refusal to certify innocence was completely capricious and without rational basis.”
district court's order noted that court held oral argument on petition
petitioner who was acquitted on re-trial after his conviction was reversed “must also show that the trial judge thought he did not commit the acts charged or that, if he did, his acts were justifiable and so not criminal”
“We . . . reject . . . the appellant’s contention that a verdict of not guilty at his second trial makes it mandatory, as a matter of law, that the trial judge execute a certificate of innocence[.]”
district court’s order noted that court held oral argument on petition

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Judges: Edgerton, Miller, Bazelon

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