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· 3/3/1975

United States v. Herbert Sperling

Citations

  • 506 F.2d 1323

How courts have described this case

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  • reversing where testimony was not corroborated, affirming where testimony was corroborated by substantial independent testimony
  • reversing where testimony was not corroborated, affirming where testimony was corroborated
  • disapproving of Pinkerton instruction where evidence of substantive acts was great, but the evidence of a conspiracy linking them together was weak, because those \circumstances [are] quite different from those that gave [Pinkerton] birth\
  • Sperling convicted of separate substantive, conspiracy, and section 848 offenses

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Judges: Friendly, Timbers, Thomsen

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