[DOWNLOAD] "Crooker v. United States" by First Circuit United States Court Of Appeals # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Crooker v. United States
- Author : First Circuit United States Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 30, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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In his appeal from the denial of his third motion to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, Michael Crooker complains of the introduction of evidence at his mail threats and conspiracy trial that he had orally threatened probation officer Michael McCartney, the recipient of one of the threatening letters Crooker was accused of sending. Crooker contends that, because he had been acquitted in the Massachusetts Superior Court of charges involving oral threats to McCartney, the admission at his federal trial of such threats to McCartney violated the doctrine of collateral estoppel. We agree with the Government that the answer to Crooker's argument is found in United States v. Smith, 446 F.2d 200 (4th Cir. 1971). There, subsequent to a state court trial at which the defendant was acquitted of uttering a postal money order, evidence concerning the defendant's negotiation of that money order was introduced at his federal trial for unlawful possession of another postal money order. In explaining why the admission of such evidence did not violate the collateral estoppel doctrine, the court said the following: