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270 F.2d 332

Docket No. 14746.

Borges v. United States

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued Feb. 16, 1959.

Decided Aug. 21, 1959.

Petition for Rehearing en Banc Denied Sept. 15, 1959.

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1959-08-21

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1961

9 federal appellate ·

3 counsel of record

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 657

Relies on Palermo v. United States

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1959-08-21

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¶1Mr. Albert J. Ahern, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

¶2Mr. Edgar T. Bellinger, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

¶3Mr. Harold D. Rhynedance, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., also entered an appearance for appellee.

¶4Before Mr. Justice Burton, retired*, and Fahy and Burger, Circuit Judges.

¶6PER CURIAM.

¶7This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction on fifteen counts charging violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 657, 1006 (Supp. V, 1958) and 22 D.C.Code § 1202 (1951), growing out of the alleged mishandling by appellant of funds of the Federal Credit Union at the Naval Air Station in Anacostia. The principal question is whether it was error for the trial judge to refuse to require a witness for the prosecution, who was an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to produce for the use of defense counsel certain reports he had made on the basis of notes of oral interviews with another witness who had also testified for the prosecution. The reports were summaries and not verbatim notes of the interviews. The elapsed time between the interviews and the preparation of the summaries is uncertain. The FBI agent involved testified on direct examination that the summaries were made some “ten or fifteen days” after the interviews but on cross-examination said that several of them were prepared as much as one month later, and in one instance almost a month and a half later. It thus appears that the reports were not statements required to be produced under the terms of 18 U.S.C. § 3500 (Supp. V, 1958). Palermo v. United States, 360 U.S. 343, 79 S.Ct. *3331217, 3 L.Ed.2d 1287. Accordingly, the refusal of the court to order their production for the use of the defense was not error. Palermo v. United States, supra.

¶8We have considered other contentions made on the appeal and find no error.

¶9Affirmed.

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