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· 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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