UNITED STATES v. ROSENTHAL

Crim. No. 79-1-AMER.

482 F.Supp. 867 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America v. Harold ROSENTHAL a/k/a Allyn Milton Karr, George Rawls a/k/a Howard Kenith Leigh, Jorge Luis Valdes, Oscar Rivera Nunez, Orlando Rengel, Sixto Granados Enriquez, Avoro Martin, Norman Downs, Howard "Sonny" Hawkins, Ned Ames, James Patrick Herman, Roger E. Beckman, Brian J. Brinker, James Sever, William D. "Bill" McCain, Leonard Bonnell Steele, Fredrick Francis Haussman, James Albert Costello, Henry Newton Coley, III, James Conway Trammell.

United States District Court, M. D. Georgia, Americus Division.

November 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. L. Rampey, Jr., U. S. Atty., Richard Nettum, Asst. U. S. Atty., Macon, Ga., for the U. S.

D. L. Middlebrooks, Jr., Pensacola, Fla., for Rosenthal.

Edward T. M. Garland, Atlanta, Ga., for Rawls.

Judith H. Mizner, Joseph S. Oteri, James William Lawson, Martin G. Weinberg, Oteri & Weinberg, Boston, Mass., Shelby Highsmith, Highsmith & Strauss, Miami, Fla., Brayton S. Dasher, Macon, Ga., for Valdes.

William V. Hall, Jr., Decatur, Ga., for Coley.

Jeffrey S. Weiner, Alan S. Ross, Weiner, Robbins, Tunkey & Ross, Miami, Fla., for Nunez.

R. David Botts, Harper, Wiggins & Botts, Atlanta, Ga., for Hawkins.

Don Wolff, Paul J. Passanante, Wolff, Frankel & Passanante, Clayton, Mo., for Herman.

Daniel V. O'Brien, St. Louis, Mo., for Brinker.

Robert A. Ciuffa, Daniel V. O'Brien, St. Louis, Mo., for Sever.

Paul M. Storment, Jr. Ltd., Belleville, Ill., for McCain.

S. Skip Taylor, Miami, Fla., Charles A. Murphy, Southfield, Mich., for Steele.

Robert C. Stone, Hollywood, Fla., for Haussman.

Claude W. Hicks, Jr., Macon, Ga., for Trammell.

Walter L. Brady, Jr., Robert J. O'Hanlon, Lee, O'Hanlon & Brady, St. Louis, Mo., for Beckman.

Albert M. Horne, Atlanta, Ga., for Ames.


OWENS, District Judge:

The defendants1 George Rawls and Jorge Valdes first challenge the procedure by which grand jurors are selected in this court on the ground that the procedures do not assure that each county or similar political subdivision is substantially proportionally represented in the master jury wheel for the district or division. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1863(b)(3). They also allege that blacks, women and persons between the ages...

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