UNITED STATES of America
v.
Michael O. MYERS et al., Defendants-Appellants.
In re Application of NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC., et al., Applicants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued August 21, 1980.
Decided August 22, 1980.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Neil I. Levy and Richard Ben-Veniste, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant Criden.
Henry Furst, Jersey City, N.J. (Raymond A. Brown, Jersey City, N.J., on brief), for defendant-appellant Errichetti.
John J. Duffy, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant-appellant Johanson.
Plato Cacheris and Larry Gondelman, Washington, D.C., submitted a brief for defendant-appellant Myers.
Edward R. Korman, U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., for the United States.
Floyd Abrams, New York City (Robert C. Meade, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, J. Marshall Wellborn, National Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and Allen Shaklan, CBS Inc., New York City, on brief), for applicants-appellees National Broadcasting Co., American Broadcasting Companies, and CBS Inc.
Daniel Reznick, Washington, D.C., for Congressman Frank Thompson, Jr., as amicus curiae.
Before NEWMAN and KEARSE, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
In the course of a pending criminal trial of the first of the so-called Abscam cases, see United States v. Myers,635 F.2d 932 (2d Cir. 1980), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (George C. Pratt, J.) on August 15, 1980 granted an application by the three major television networks for the opportunity to copy videotape recordings introduced as evidence in the trial. Once copies have...
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