UNITED STATES v. AVILES

No. 355, Docket 25682.

274 F.2d 179 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Alfredo AVILES, Charles Barcellona, Jean Capece, Charles Di Palermo, Joseph Di Palermo, Natale Evola, Vito Genovese, Vincent Gigante, Daniel Lessa, Nicholas Lessa, Rocco Mazzie, Carmine Polizzano, Ralph Polizzano, Benjamin Rodriquez, and Salvatore Santora, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 12, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome J. Londin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Southern Dist. of New York, New York City (S. Hazard Gillespie, Jr., U. S. Atty., Herbert B. Greene, Mark F. Hughes, Jr., Robert Price and Robert E. Scher, Asst. U. S. Attys., New York City, on the brief), for appellee.

Saul Roth, New York City, for appellant Alfredo Aviles.

Roy L. Reardon, New York City, for appellant Charles Barcellona.

Albert J. Krieger, New York City (Theodore Krieger, on the brief), for appellants Jean Capece, Joseph Di Palermo and Benjamin Rodriquez.

Robert R. Kaufman, New York City (Rudolph Stand, New York City, on the brief), for appellant Charles Di Palermo.

Maurice Edelbaum, New York City, for appellants Natale Evola and Vincent Gigante.

Solomon A. Klein, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Wilfred L. Davis, New York City, on the brief), for appellant Vito Genovese.

Abraham H. Brodsky, New York City, for appellants Daniel Lessa and Nicholas Lessa.

Henry K. Chapman, New York City, for appellant Rocco Mazzie.

David Schwartz, New York City, for appellant Carmine A. Polizzano.

Allen S. Stim, New York City, for appellant Ralph Polizzano.

Herbert S. Siegal, New York City (Osmond K. Fraenkel, New York City, on the brief), for appellant Salvatore Santora.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and CLARK and MOORE, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Chief Judge.

Alfredo Aviles and fourteen co-defendants appeal their convictions for conspiracy to violate the narcotic laws, 21 U.S.C.A. §§ 173, 174 and sentences of imprisonment ranging from 5 to 20 years1 after a three months' jury trial in the Southern District of New York. The indictment named a total of 37 defendants and 14 other co-conspirators, but only 17 defendants stood trial on the charge of conspiracy to...

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