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323 F.2d 628

Docket No. 17903.

Saunders v. United States

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued Aug. 20, 1963.

Decided Sept. 19, 1963.

Petition for Rehearing En Banc Denied Oct. 31, 1963.

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1963-09-19

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1974

5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

2 counsel of record

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500

Relies on Saunders v. United States

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1963-09-19

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¶1Mr. Michael W. Mitchell, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this court), with whom Mr. George W. Shadoan, Washington, D. C. (appointed by the District Court), was on the brief, for appellant.

¶2Mr. B. Michael Rauh, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker and Victor V/. Caputy, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

¶3Before Wilbur K. Miller, Bastían and McGowan, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5On Saunders’s appeal from a robbery conviction, we remanded — without vacating the judgment of conviction — for the District Court to determine whether the Jencks Act1 required the production of certain papers he had demanded at his trial. Saunders v. United States, 114 U.S.App.D.C. 345, 316 F.2d 346 (1963). In that opinion, our principal concern was with some notes taken by a Government attorney during a pre-trial interview with a Government witness. At the hearing on remand, these notes were produced, and the defense conceded they were riot required to be produced at trial. Also forthcoming at the hearing were certain police reports, some of which are characterized by the defense as “a reasonably accurate reproduction” of notes taken by the investigating officer which had been destroyed by him after trial. The District Court heard lengthy testimony with respect to the formulation of these documents, including the notes, and concluded that none was within the scope of the Jencks Act. We find no reason in the record for disturbing this conclusion.

¶6Affirmed.

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