UNITED STATES of America
v.
Joseph Louis LANZA et al.
United States District Court, M. D. Florida, Orlando Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 24, 1972.
Memorandum Opinion May 30, 1972.
As Amended January 11, 1973.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Bernard H. Dempsey, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Tampa, Fla., for plaintiff.
Walter G. Arnold, Jacksonville, Fla., and Edwin C. Cluster, Ocala, Fla., for Roy Thaggard Boyd.
Donald R. Corbett, Orlando, Fla., for Donald Miles.
Clinton A. Curtis, Jack P. Brandon, Lake Wales, Fla., for Vincent M. Razzano.
Leo W. Haley, Orlando, Fla., for James C. Britt, Peggy Ann Britt and Carrie Wise.
Edward R. Kirkland, Orlando, Fla., for Lee Massey, and William Anderson Fox.
Richard C. Langford, Lakeland, Fla., for Lillian Lockett, Janie Simon, Lee Lockett, Leroy Johnson, Mary Williams, Catherine Williams, Thelma McClary, James Ned Weaver, Gertrude Norman, Leola Ellis, Margaret Pressley, Joe Glover, Ruth Glover, Lula Mae Giles, Maggie Smith, Eddie Holland and John Ray Simon.
Arnold D. Levine, Tampa, Fla., for John Newton Fountain.
David M. Porter, Orlando, Fla., for Ida Wall Silas, James Crabtree, Samuel Eugene White, William Ralph Strawder, Eloise Graham, Eddie Mitchell and Louis Constantino.
Frank Ragano, Tampa, Fla., for Joe Louis Lanza and Anne Fusco.
Richard S. Rhodes, Orlando, Fla., for Morris Engle, Richard Mercier, and Charles Edward McCuen.
James M. Russ, Orlando, Fla., for Donald B. Smith.
Michael Sigman, Orlando, Fla., for Morris Solomon Bort, Ester Cobbin McGee and Louis B. Pacheco.
Dan R. Warren, Daytona Beach, Fla., for John Narducci and Bruce O'Malley.
Andrew A. Welch, Orlando, Fla., for Henry A. Finkelstein, Matthew Smith, Frank Del Rosso, Robert Steve Shellhorn, Orville Johnson, III, and Larry Gonzales.
United States District Court, M. D. Florida, Orlando Division.
ORDER
TJOFLAT, District Judge.
During the course of the trial of this case, the government called as one of its principal witnesses, Beverly Roberts Matthews. She testified at great length and in great detail concerning the Harlan Blackburn gambling operation, the subject of this prosecution. One of the things developed during her cross-examination was that she had gone to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and offered her services as an informant at a...
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