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UNITED STATES v. SOPHER

Nos. 15057, 15061.

362 F.2d 523 (1966)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Raymond O. SOPHER, John Kerestes, John A. Ramza, Michael F. Ryan and Matthew J. Tibbles, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 19, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Oliver, Maurice J. Walsh, Edward J. Calihan, Harry J. Busch, Jason E. Bellows, Sherman C. Magidson, Chicago, Ill., for appellants.

Edward V. Hanrahan, U. S. Atty., John Peter Lulinski, John Powers Crowley, D. Arthur Connelly, Douglas G. Brown, Lawrence Jay Weiner, Asst. U. S. Attys., Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before DUFFY, SCHNACKENBERG and KNOCH, Circuit Judges.

SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.

Raymond O. Sopher, John Kerestes, John A. Ramza, Michael F. Ryan and Matthew J. Tibbles, defendants, appeal from their convictions of a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951. They were tried by a jury and the court sentenced them to prison terms.

Sopher was the mayor of Streator, Illinois, and his co-defendants were commissioners thereof.1

Count I of the indictment charged defendants with having...

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