· 7/17/1967
United States v. George Gillette
Citations
- 383 F.2d 843
- 1967 U.S. App. LEXIS 5599
How courts have described this case
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- holding that an attorney’s affidavit that does not allege personal knowledge of disputed facts is inadequate to justify a suppression hearing
- upholding the denial of an evidentiary hearing where the affidavit submitted failed to allege personal knowledge
- finding no abuse of discretion where court refused to ask jury panel whether legal principles of reasonable doubt and presumption of innocence were understood
- finding that affidavit of defendant’s attorney, who did not have personal knowledge of the facts attested to, did not raise a material issue of fact sufficient to justify a hearing, where the affidavit for the search warrant supported a finding of probable cause
- an attorney’s affidavit that does not allege personal knowledge of disputed facts is inadequate to justify a suppression hearing
- attorney’s affidavit that does not allege personal knowledge of the disputed facts is inadequate to warrant a suppression hearing
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Judges: Waterman, Smith, Levet
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