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· 2/15/1985

United States v. Jo Ann Harrelson, Charles Voyed Harrelson and Elizabeth Nichols Chagra

Citations

  • 754 F.2d 1153
  • 17 Fed. R. Serv. 738
  • 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 28310

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that jury instruction remedied the spillover effects from a codefendant \murderer for hire\
  • denying one defendant’s claim of prejudice based on her co- defendant’s loathsome reputation as a hired killer
  • rejecting a challenge to evidence obtained through electronic surveillance and upholding the admissibility of recordings of conversations of an inmate with his wife and brother, an attorney, concluding the conversations were not privileged
  • finding no legitimate expectation of privacy for conversations held in a prison setting
  • \[T]he circumstance that one has chosen odious associates seems a dubious sword.\

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Judges: Gee, Reavley, Davis

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