UNITED STATES v. CARMICHAEL

Nos. 81-5141(L), 81-5142.

685 F.2d 903 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Albert Eugene CARMICHAEL, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Joe Grady FLOWERS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 12, 1982.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald P. Fischetti, New York City, Morris D. Rosen, Charleston, S. C. (Rosen, Oberman & Rosen, Charleston, S. C., on brief), John C. Lindsay, Bennettsville, S. C. (Henry Hammer, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellants.

Craig C. Donsanto, Director, Election Crimes Branch, Washington, D. C., Thomas P. Simpson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C. (Henry Dargan McMaster, U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C., David J. Slattery, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., Nancy Simmons Stewart, Public Integrity Section, Criminal Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS and ERVIN, Circuit Judges, and DOUMAR, District Judge.


ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, Albert Eugene Carmichael, Jr. and Joe Grady Flowers challenge their convictions stemming from an extensive vote-buying investigation of the 1980 democratic primary election in Dillon County, South Carolina.1 The defendants were tried together and both were convicted of conspiracy to buy votes and substantive counts of vote buying in the primary election, as well as obstruction of justice in connection...

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