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Government Appeals In Criminal Cases: The 1978 Decisions, Edward H. Cooper
Government Appeals In Criminal Cases: The 1978 Decisions, Edward H. Cooper
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The statute allowing the government to appeal from some forms of trial court defeat in criminal cases, 18 U.S.C.A. § 3731, has a long and tangled history. In its 1970 opinion in United States v. Sisson 9ui the Supreme Court wrestled mightily with a difficult problem under the statute as it then stood, and invited Congress to amend "this awkward and ancient Act." Soon afterward the act was amended. It now provides in part that the government may appeal in a criminal case
from a decision, judgment, or order of a district court dismissing an indictment or information as to …