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· 4/16/1980

United States v. James A. Conlon

Citations

  • 628 F.2d 150
  • 202 U.S. App. D.C. 150
  • 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 18602

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that “[i]t is clear that the government could have been more specific in the indictment” if it had wanted to
  • “[I]t is settled that a bill of particulars and a fortiori oral argument cannot cure a defective indictment.”
  • “There is a difference . . . between failing to state an element of the offense and being less specific than one could be in spelling out the acts that constitute the offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Wright, Bazelon, Wilkey

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