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- Title: United States v. George Fee Howell
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Release Date : January 20, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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HAMLEY, Circuit Judge: George Fee Howell appeals from his conviction on a charge of transferring counterfeit Federal Reserve notes with the intent that they be passed as true and genuine, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 473. Howell argues: (1) 18 U.S.C. § 473 is unconstitutional, (2) Marcellino Pina, Jr., and his two younger brothers, who were alleged to have passed counterfeit bills supplied by defendant Howell, were held by authorities in violation of the rule announced in McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332, 63 S. Ct. 608, 87 L. Ed. 819 (1943), and stated in Rule 5(a), Fed.R.Crim.P., (3) Pina was coerced into incriminating himself, in violation of principles announced in Bram v. United States, 168 U.S. 532, 18 S. Ct. 183, 42 L. Ed. 568 (1897), (4) defendant was entrapped as a matter of law and therefore should have been acquitted under the rule of Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435, 53 S. Ct. 210, 77 L. Ed. 413 (1932), and (5) the Government's action in recording a telephone conversation between Pina and defendant violated the latter's constitutional rights, and such recording was therefore erroneously received in evidence. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.