U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1956

Caspar W. Gregory, III v. United States

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · Decided March 22, 1956 · Edgerton, Fahy, Per Curiam, Washington

231 F.2d 258; 97 U.S. App. D.C. 305; 1956 U.S. App. LEXIS 3382 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Counsel

Mr. H. Clifford Allder, Washington, D. C. (appointed by the District Court), for appellant., Mr. Nathan J. Paulson, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., and Lewis Carroll and Joel D. Blackwell, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Cases that cite this one

14 later published cases cite this decision.

Rhozier T. Brown, Jr. v. United States of America, John D. Irby v. United States of America, Robert L. Jones v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1967)
Robert H. McLindon v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1964)
James W. Killough v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1962)
Charles D. Long v. District of Columbia (D.C. Cir. 1972)
Leon Jackson v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1962)
United States v. Castle (District Court, District of Columbia 1962)
United States v. Smith (District Court, District of Columbia 1962)
Andrew J. Leonard v. United States (9th Cir. 1960)
Caspar W. Gregory, III v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1958)
Abbott v. United States (D.C. 1958)
Gregory v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1958)
United States v. Daniel J. Waletzki (7th Cir. 1997)
State v. Peacher (W. Va. 1981)
United States v. Harvey Allen Place, Jr. And William Canty (2d Cir. 1959)

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Opinion

PER CURIAM.

The defendant appeals from a conviction of housebreaking and grand larceny. The making of an investigation, which ultimately led the police to get certain evidence from remote places, was suggested to them by their finding a clipping of a newspaper account of the crime in an entirely different place. Because the appellant frequented this place, the police were led to suspect him. Because the police had no right to be in this place, appellant contends the evidence should have been excluded. Though the question is close, we think the connection between the evidence and the previous misconduct of the police is “so attenuated as to dissipate the taint.” Nardone v. United States, 308 U.S. 338, 341, 60 S.Ct. 266, 268, 84 L.Ed. 307.

Affirmed.

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