United States Fourth Circuit

In a challenge to rulings admitting classified documents in an espionage prosecution, the rulings are affirmed, where the offenses were predicated on the existence of those documents, and the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction under the Classified Information Procedures Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/24/2009
• Published 02/24/2009

Judges

• Before KING, GREGORY, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Thomas P. Reilly, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Baruch Weiss, Arent Fox, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.;  Abbe David Lowell, McDermott, Will & Emery, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Chuck Rosenberg, United States Attorney, James L. Trump, W. Neil Hammerstrom, Jr., David B. Goodhand, Assistant United States Attorneys, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia;  Michael C. Martin, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Erica E. Paulson, Roy L. Austin, Jr., McDermott, Will & Emery, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.;  John N. Nassikas III, Kate B. Briscoe, Arent Fox, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees.