UNITED STATES v. JAMES

Nos. 71-1168, 72-1489, 71-1192, 72-1488, 71-1193, 72-1483, 71-1215, 71-1216.

494 F.2d 1007 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America v. Leon JAMES, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. Enrico TANTILLO, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. Robert VERDEROSA, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. Lawrence W. JACKSON, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. Carl W. BROOKS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 4, 1974.

Rehearing Denied April 15, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Cull, Washington, D.C., with whom George M. Coburn, Washington, D.C. (both appointed by this Court) was on the brief, for appellant in Nos. 71-1168 and 72-1489.

Joel M. Finkelstein, Washington, D.C., with whom James L. Rider, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellants in Nos. 71-1192, 72-1488, 71-1193 and 72-1483.

John A. Shorter, Jr., Washington, D.C., with whom William A. Bonders was on the brief, for appellants in Nos. 71-1215 and 71-1216.

Roger E. Zuckerman and James L. Lyons, Asst. U.S. Attys., with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Theodore Wieseman, Robert E. L. Eaton, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief for appellee.

Before WINTER, Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, and MacKINNON and ROBB, Circuit Judges.


ROBB, Circuit Judge:

The appellants and Carmine Paladino and Mary Davis, both now dead, were indicted for conspiracy to sell narcotics in violation of 26 U.S.C. §§ 7237(b) and 4705(a), and conspiracy to receive and conceal narcotic drugs, knowing them to have been illegally imported. 21 U.S.C. § 174.1 Jackson, Tantillo, Paladino, Verderosa and James were also indicted for substantive violations of the narcotics laws. All...

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