Information about a legal case?

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

Here’s the case: Cody v. Solem, 755 F.2d 1323 (8th Cir. 02/19/1985)

I was looking thru the Google News Archives on newspaper articles on actress Angelique Pettyjohn, who spent many years as a showgirl in Las Vegas.

One of the things that popped up was this case which mentions that one of the principals had "met a dancer named Angelique Pettyjohn. . . "

Just looking for some info on what this case was about, and what Angelique’s involvement was.

[Bijou_Drains]

Have you checked to see if that court has their records online? They might have some online but maybe not back to 85.

[Caffeine.addict]

It is a published decision. Sometimes they are online, but I have never seen any logic to which ones are available for free.

Here is the case.

Cody arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada later that evening. There he met a dancer named Angelique Pettyjohn, and for the next seventeen days he gambled, bought drugs, and purchased the services of prostitutes. He changed hotels frequently, registering under several different names, and bought Pettyjohn a Lincoln Continental automobile. Pettyjohn testified that Cody gave her over $6,000.00 in cash to trade in for different bills, or, in Cody’s words, he gave her the money to “wash.” After washing the money, she returned it to Cody. Later, Pettyjohn, unsure of what she had gotten herself into, contacted Las Vegas authorities and Cody was arrested on February 28, 1978. After Cody’s arrest, Pettyjohn turned over to the police five envelopes Cody had given her. The envelopes contained over $40,000.00 in various denominations.

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

Cool! Thanks!