UNITED STATES v. HAWKINS

No. 80-7140.

661 F.2d 436 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Howard "Sonny" HAWKINS, Roger G. Beckman, William D. "Bill" McCain, George Rawls, a/k/a Howard Kenith Leigh, Ned Ames, Jorge Luis Valdes, James Patrick Herman, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied, February 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. David Botts, Atlanta, Ga., for Hawkins.

Walter L. Brady, Jr., Robert J. Hanlon, St. Louis, Mo., for Beckman.

Charles H. Stegmeyer, Belleville, Ill., for McCain.

John R. Martin, Atlanta, Ga., for Rawls.

Al Horn, Atlanta, Ga., for Ames.

Shelby Highsmith, Miami, Fla., Martin G. Weinberg, Boston, Mass., Brayton Dasher, Macon, Ga., for Jorge Luis Valdes.

Donald L. Wolff, Clayton, Mo., for Herman.

Richard Nettum, William P. Adams, Macon, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GEWIN, RONEY and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied, February 23, 1982.

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

On this consolidated appeal seven defendants, jointly tried before a federal jury, challenge their convictions for drug conspiracy. The defendants raise numerous points of error, including the composition of the grand and petit juries, restrictions on cross-examination, prosecutorial misconduct, Brady violations, judicial bias, denial of a bill of particulars, sufficiency...

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