UNITED STATES v. COLATRIANO

No. 79-5544.

624 F.2d 686 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph Anthony COLATRIANO and Robert Edward Goodwin, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Carr, Jr., Atlanta, Ga. (Court-Appointed), for Goodwin.

Thomas C. Bianco, Atlanta, Ga. (Court-Appointed), for Colatriano.

Robert L. Ridley, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellants.

William L. Harper, U. S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TUTTLE, VANCE and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This case involves appeals by two defendants who were convicted in the district court for the Northern District of Georgia of assault and carrying a deadly weapon while incarcerated in the federal penitentiary. We affirm the convictions.

On December 13, 1978, Lorman Edmonds, an inmate at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, was resting in his cell recovering from minor surgery, when he was attacked and stabbed. Edmonds ran from the cell...

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