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A 5 page overview of this Supreme Court case involving attempted bribery of a petit jury by the president of the Teamsters labor union, Jimmy Hoffa. The case argued, unsuccessfully, that the government’s use of a paid informant who worked his way into Hoffa’s motel suite and the area of his legal counsel, constituted a violation of Hoffa’s Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: AM2_PPlwHoff.rtf
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United States was argued in 1966 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The case involved charges of attempted bribery of a petit jury by the
president of the Teamsters labor union, Jimmy Hoffa. This bribery was determined to be in violation of the Taft-Hartley Act. Much of the credibility of the case rested
on the shoulders of a paid informer, a union official from a Louisiana local, who claimed to have heard the defendant, Hoffa, make several incriminating statements. The informer claimed
to have heard similar statements from a codefendent. According to the informant, who himself was under state and federal indictments at the time but who was out on bail,
these instances occurred during his repeated visits to Hoffas hotel suite during the course of a previous trial. The informer reported the incriminating information to a federal agent on
several different occassions. His wife, consequently, received government payments and the charges he faced were ultimately dropped or allowed to go unpursued. Although a motion was made to
suppress the information provided by the informer, that motion was denied. The defendants were indeed convicted and those convictions held even on appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court (349
F2d 20). The Supreme Court in this case ultimately had to make a decision as to whether the defendants constitutional rights
had been violated by the governments deceptive placement of an informer in the Hoffa suite, a suite which was also frequently used for legal counsel of the defendant. The
defense hoped to have the evidence obtained by the government suppressed in a subsequent trial which was being held as a result of different charges. The Supreme Court found
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