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UNITED STATES v. POSTMA

No. 48, Docket 24114.

242 F.2d 488 (1957)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Peter POSTMA and Joseph P. McConnon, Defendants-Appellants, and Nicholas Robilotto, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided February 21, 1957.

On Rehearing April 9, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Stuart Jones, Troy, N. Y. (Segal, Dorsman, Soffer & Segal, Albany, N. Y., on the brief), for appellant Postma.

Isadore Katz, of Lieberman, Katz & Aronson, New York City, for appellant McConnon.

Richard E. Bolton, Asst. U. S. Atty., N. D. N. Y., Troy, N. Y. (Theodore F. Bowes, U. S. Atty., and Andrew J. Culick, Asst. U. S. Atty., N. D. N. Y., Amsterdam, N. Y., on the brief), for appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and FRANK and HINCKS, Circuit Judges.

HINCKS, Circuit Judge.

A one-count indictment was returned in April 1955, charging that Peter Postma, Joseph McConnon and Nicholas Robilotto, conspired from June 1951 to April 1955, when the indictment was returned, to interfere with interstate commerce by extorting money from eleven named truckers under threat of continuing a strike. The trial began in April 1956. Robilotto was acquitted by a directed verdict. The other two were found guilty and both appeal.

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