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UNITED STATES v. CRUZ

No. 414, Docket 71-1857.

455 F.2d 184 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jose Torres CRUZ and Ruben Alberto Vega y Merced, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 2, 1972.

Certiorari Denied May 15, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James N. Egan, Hartford, Conn., for appellants.

Randolph C. Roeder, Asst. U. S. Atty., Hartford, Conn. (Stewart H. Jones, U. S. Atty., D.Conn., on the brief), for appellee.

Before FRIENDLY, Chief Judge, and MOORE and OAKES, Circuit Judges.

Certiorari Denied May 15, 1972. See 92 S.Ct. 1769.

PER CURIAM:

Appellants ask us in their brief on appeal to characterize as plain error, Fed.R.Crim.P. 52(b), two comments by the court occurring in the course of a 2½-day trial. The comments1 are said to demonstrate the court's "racial prejudice against the defendants in particular and Puerto Ricans in general" and to have deprived appellants of a fair trial. In a supplementary...

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