· 2/13/1980
United States v. Fred Lenn Jones
Citations
- 612 F.2d 453
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- \[Section 3500's] limitation has also been extended to prohibit the pretrial disclosure of the identity of government witnesses in the absence of a showing of reasonable necessity by the defense.\
- “[Section 3500’s] limitation has also been extended to prohibit the pretrial disclosure of the identity of government witnesses in the absence of a showing of 7 not subject to disclosure under Rule 16(a
- \Appellant's reliance on the Jencks Act as a pre-trial discovery - 20 - tool is completely misplaced. . . . [T]he Act specifically provides that no statement of a government witness is discoverable until the witness has testified on direct examination.\
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Judges: Kilkenny, Sneed
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