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UNITED STATES v. McCLAIN

No. 75-3368.

545 F.2d 988 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Patty McCLAIN, Joseph M. Rodriguez, Ada Eveleigh Simpson, William Clark Simpson and Mike Bradshaw, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 20, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Biery Court-appointed), San Antonio, Tex., for McClain.

Thomas H. Sharp, Jr. (Court-appointed), San Antonio, Tex., for Rodriguez.

J. Michael Myers (Court-appointed Co-Counsel), O'Neal Munn, Gerry L. Saum, San Antonio, Tex., for Ada Simpson.

James R. Gillespie, San Antonio, Tex., for M. Bradshaw and Wm. C. Simpson.

Edward E. DeWees, Jr., San Antonio, Tex., for Wm. C. Simpson.

John E. Clark, U. S. Atty., W. Ray Jahn, Le Roy Morgan Jahn, Asst. U. S. Attys., San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

James R. McAlee, Rosalind C. Cohen, Patrick F. J. Macrory, Attys., Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae Assoc. of Dealers in Ancient, etc., Art.

Before WISDOM and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges, and GROOMS, District Judge.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

Museum directors, art dealers, and innumerable private collectors throughout this country must have been in a state of shock when they read the news — if they did — of the convictions of the five defendants in this case.1 The defendants were indicted under the National Stolen Property Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2314, 2315, and were convicted of conspiring...

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