UNITED STATES of America, Appellant,
v.
Zvonko BUSIC et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 14, 1977.
Decided January 27, 1977.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Richard M. Cooper, Washington, D. C. (Edward Bennett Williams, Michael E. Tigar, Pierce H. O'Donnell and Williams, Connolly & Califano, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for defendant-appellee Zvonko Busic.
Jonathan J. Silbermann, New York City (William J. Gallagher and The Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Services Unit, New York City), for defendant-appellee Julienne Busic.
Martin Elefant, Brooklyn, N. Y. and Paul B. Bergman, New York City, filed a brief for defendant-appellee Petar Matanic.
Nancy Rosner, New York City, filed a brief for defendant-appellee Mark Vlasic.
Edward R. Korman, Chief Asst. U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y. (David G. Trager, U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for appellant.
Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and SMITH and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:
Prominent among the injuries inflicted upon the American colonists by King George III, according to the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was the despised practice of "transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences."1 This revulsion for adjudication of criminal charges in a remote region, before a jury drawn from a hostile or insouciant citizenry, was responsible for the codification...
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