UNITED STATES v. FIELDS

No. 342, Docket 77-1342.

592 F.2d 638 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Douglas P. FIELDS, Frederick M. Friedman, Peter S. Davis, Alan E. Sandberg, and Eric Berge, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Submitted January 11, 1978.

Decided September 14, 1978.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 14, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Cutner, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Lawrence B. Pedowitz, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, on the brief), for appellant United States.

Louis Bender and Sandor Frankel, New York City, for defendants-appellees Fields and Friedman.

Gary P. Naftalis, New York City (Sheldon H. Elsen, Leslie A. Lupert, Gary H. Greenberg, and Orans, Elsen & Polstein, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee Davis.

Norman S. Ostrow, New York City (Frank H. Wright, and Grand & Ostrow, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee Sandberg.

Hochman, Salkin & DeRoy, and Stephen V. Wilson, Beverly Hills, Cal., filed a brief for defendant-appellee Berge.

Harvey L. Pitt, Gen. Counsel, Paul Gonson, Associate Gen. Counsel, Irving H. Picard, Asst. Gen. Counsel, and Lawrence A. Horn, Atty., SEC, Washington, D. C., filed a brief for Securities and Exchange Commission, amicus curiae.

Before FEINBERG, MANSFIELD and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied February 14, 1979.

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

On this appeal by the United States1 from an order entered in a criminal action prior to trial in the Southern District of New York, Charles S. Haight, Jr., District Judge, [1977-1978 Transfer Binder] CCH Fed.Sec.L.Rep. ¶ 96,074 (S.D.N.Y., June 2, 1977), which dismissed and struck substantial portions of a securities fraud indictment...

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