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Borges v. United States

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
Aug 21, 1959
270 F.2d 332 (D.C. Cir. 1959)

Opinion

No. 14746.

Argued February 16, 1959.

Decided August 21, 1959. Petition for Rehearing en Banc Denied September 15, 1959.

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

Mr. 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.

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

Before Mr. Justice BURTON, retired, and FAHY and BURGER, Circuit Judges.

Sitting by designation pursuant to Sec. 294(a), Title 28 U.S.Code.


This 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. 1217, 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.

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

Affirmed.


Summaries of

Borges v. United States

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
Aug 21, 1959
270 F.2d 332 (D.C. Cir. 1959)
Case details for

Borges v. United States

Case Details

Full title:Elmer L. BORGES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee

Court:United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit

Date published: Aug 21, 1959

Citations

270 F.2d 332 (D.C. Cir. 1959)
106 U.S. App. D.C. 139

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