United States v. Hoffa’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““The recording, if used in the trial, would at the very most have been of a purely cumulative nature. Nothing was said in the recording of the slightest relevance to the trial that was not testified to by witnesses in the trial, including both Partin and King. The only other possible use of the recording would have been for the cross-examination of the witness Partin. The extremely extensive cross-examination of this witness on all matters, including all matters touched upon in the recording, renders any possible error in the non-disclosure of the recording harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. This conclusion is further required by the extensive and overwhelming nature of the evidence of each defendant’s guilt when the record is viewed as a whole.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hoffa v. United States

2. “although none of these petitioners was ever the subject of electronic surveillance directed against him two of the petitioners did participate in conversations which were monitored during the course of electronic surveillance directed against others.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. James R. Hoffa, Thomas Ewing Parks, Larry Campbell, and Ewing King,defendants-Appellants. United States of America v. Ewing King

3. “finding that the recording did not in any wise taint the evidence used by the Government upon the trial would be equally as applicable to the defendant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment contentions as it would to his Fourth Amendment contention.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Zarzour