UNITED STATES v. WATSON

No. 79-2337.

623 F.2d 1198 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Burnell G. WATSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Gambill, Allen & Korkowski & Associates, Rantoul, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Margaret Halpern, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Antitrust Div., Washington, D. C., Diane Lotko-Baker, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Antitrust Div., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges, and JAMESON, Senior District Judge.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Burnell Watson was convicted after a jury trial of making false statements before a grand jury in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623(a).1 The grand jury before which Watson allegedly testified had been impaneled in Danville, Illinois,2 to investigate possible violations of the federal antitrust and mail fraud statutes involving conspiracies to rig bids on municipal and state...

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