Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Peter Niven KIGER, Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1970-01-26
Citations: 421 F.2d 1396
Docket Number: No. 436, Docket 33689
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Peter Niven KIGER, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 421
Pages: 1396–1397

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Peter Niven KIGER, Appellant.
No. 436, Docket 33689.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued Jan. 14, 1970.
Decided Jan. 26, 1970.
Certiorari Denied May 18, 1970.
See 90 S.Ct. 1693.
Charles B. Updike, James D. Zirin, Paul B. Galvani, Asst. U. S. Attys., Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., for appellee.
Marvin M. Karpatkin, Alan H. Levine, New York City, for appellant.
Before MEDINA, WATERMAN and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
We affirm the conviction below on the opinion below, reported in 297 F.Supp. 339 (SDNY1969) and do so upon the authority binding upon this court, United States v. O'Brien, 391 U.S. 367, 88 S.Ct. 1673, 20 L.Ed.2d 672 (1968). And see United States v. Miller, 367 F.2d 72 (2 Cir. 1966), cert. denied, 386 U.S. 911, 87 S.Ct. 855, 17 L.Ed.2d 787 (1967), rehearing denied, 392 U.S. 917, 88 S.Ct. 2049, 20 L.Ed.2d 1378 (1968). With reference to the claim that the judge below abused his discretion in declining to accept the proffered offer of a plea of nalo contendere, we discover no reason to interfere with this decision of the trial judge. By refusing to accept the plea after the distribution and receipt of memoranda relative thereto, the judge required the Government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt each and every allegation of the indictment.