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· 4/20/1977

United States v. Paul Rice, Pedro Alvarez, John Leslie Wells, Jr., and Jerold Massler

Citations

  • 550 F.2d 1364
  • 1 Fed. R. Serv. 703
  • 1977 U.S. App. LEXIS 13747

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the district court did not err in refusing to compel a witness to submit to an interview by defense counsel because “[a]ll that a defendant is entitled to is access to a prospective witness”
  • “All that a defendant is entitled to is access to a prospective witness. This right, however, exists co-equally with the witnesses’ right to refuse to say anything.”
  • jury’s request was conceivably for over 2000 pages of transcript

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Judges: Jones, Coleman, Tjof-Lat

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