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ALLEN v. SNOW

No. 80-1304.

635 F.2d 12 (1980)

Max J. ALLEN et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Linwood H. SNOW et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 25, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald F. Kehoe and Albert L. Hutton, Jr., Boston, Mass., with whom Barbara Bruce Williams, Haussermann, Davison & Shattuck, William Madden, David A. Mills, and Mills & Teague, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Paul W. Shaw, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., and Stephen R. Delinsky, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Criminal Bureau, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendants Allen, Cappiello, Koplow and one George Lincoln were indicted in October, 1977 in the Massachusetts superior court for conspiring to burn a building on Symphony Road, Boston, and so to defraud an insurance company. This was part of an alleged arson ring which had received a great deal of publicity, and the defendants, other than Lincoln, who had made a plea bargaining agreement, were justly apprehensive of a tainted jury....

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