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· 2/10/1975

United States v. Robert Sylvester Waddell

Citations

  • 507 F.2d 1226
  • 1975 U.S. App. LEXIS 16187

How courts have described this case

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

  • requiring the trial court to “make a searching inquiry into the validity and extent of [the witness’s] Fifth Amendment claims”
  • “The law is that Smith, if he was a paid Government informer, could entrap Waddell, even though no Government officer knew of Smith’s actions, because the Government is deemed to have constructive knowledge 19 1993

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Judges: Thornberry, Goldberg, Godbold

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