UNITED STATES v. SWANSON

Crim. No. R-74-79 BRT.

399 F.Supp. 441 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Harmon Northrop SWANSON et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Nevada.

July 15, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Semenza, U. S. Atty, Reno, Nev. and Frank Kear, Sp. Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

Oscar B. Goodman, Goodman & Snyder, Las Vegas, Nev., for Harmon Northrup Swanson.

Richard J. Legarza, Reno, Nev., for Charles Eugene Travella.

Willard Van Hazel, U. S. Public Defender, Reno, Nev., for James Donald Wiley.

LeRoy Arrascada, Reno, Nev., for Lawrence Elwood Werry.

Mark L. Tuft, James Brosnahan, Jr., Cooper, White & Cooper, San Francisco, Cal., for Lewis Alfred Marsten, Jr.


ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO SUPPRESS

THOMPSON, District Judge.

The defendants have moved to suppress evidence acquired by electronic surveillance pursuant to authorization orders entered by Judge Roger D. Foley in December 1971.

The authorizations for the wiretaps were obtained at a time and under circumstances which have spawned much litigation under the regime of John N. Mitchell as Attorney General of the United States. The initial application for...

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