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CLAIBORNE v. U. S.

No. A-725.

465 U.S. 1305 (1984)

104 S.Ct. 1401

79 L.Ed.2d 665

CLAIBORNE, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 12, 1984.

JUSTICE REHNQUIST, Circuit Justice

Harry Eugene Claiborne, the applicant, is a sitting United States Judge in the District Court for the District of Nevada. In December 1983, he was indicted for violations of 18 U. S. C. § 201(c) and 18 U. S. C. §1343. His contentions that a sitting federal judge may not be criminally prosecuted before being removed from office by impeachment, and that the Government prosecuted him in order to punish him for decisions made...

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