UNITED STATES v. SHORTER

Crim. No. 84-0421.

620 F.Supp. 73 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America v. John A. SHORTER, Jr.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

As Amended October 24, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol E. Bruce, Darryl W. Jackson, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., for Government.

John A. Shorter, Jr., Washington, D.C., pro se.


MEMORANDUM ORDER

HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.

Defendant, an attorney appearing pro se, was convicted after a twenty-one day trial of one count of tax evasion and six counts of willful failure to pay income taxes. By motion filed before the verdict was rendered on Count 1, defendant moved for a mistrial as to that count and to vacate the verdict on Counts 2 through 7, on the ground of prosecutorial misconduct.

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