UNITED STATES v. LEON

No. 29459.

441 F.2d 175 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rene Juarez LEON, Martin Francis Xavier Casey, Lawrence James Carlin, Howard Kenneth Davis, Ralph Grant Edens, Charles Smith and Edmund Kolby, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 30, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence S. Katz, Ct. appointed, Miami Beach, Fla., for Casey & Smith. Harvey S. Swickle, Jack R. Nageley Law Offices, Miami Beach, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Robert W. Rust, U. S. Atty., Lloyd G. Bates, Jr., Charles O. Farrar, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TUTTLE, AINSWORTH and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.


AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

This bizarre criminal case involves an ill-fated expedition, by a small group of men, defendants herein, to overthrow the government of the Republic of Haiti. Appellants, Rene Juarez Leon, Martin Francis Xavier Casey, Lawrence James Carlin, Howard Kenneth Davis, Ralph Edens, Charles Smith and Edmund Kolby, appeal from a judgment of conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, relative to conspiracy to commit an offense against the United...

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