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UNITED STATES v. CHINCHIC

Nos. 80-5172, 80-5173.

655 F.2d 547 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Larry Roger CHINCHIC, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Nick MELIA, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Burney, Jr., Wilmington, N.C. (Burney, Burney, Barefoot & Bain, Wilmington, N.C., on brief), for appellant in No. 80-5172.

Kathryn Emmett, Stamford, Conn., for appellant in No. 80-5173.

Wallace W. Dixon, Asst. U. S. Atty., Raleigh, N.C. (James L. Blackburn, U. S. Atty., Richard Tatum Gammon, Laura Lea Kranifeld, Third Year Law Students, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and ERVIN, Circuit Judge.

ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

Having before us for review the convictions of Larry Roger Chinchic (under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2314 and 2) and Nick Melia (under 18 U.S.C. § 2315), we reverse and remand for new trials for reasons set out below.

I.

A. History of the proceedings

In March 1980, Larry Roger Chinchic, Alfred Anthony Conti, Nick Melia and others were charged in a three count indictment issued following an FBI investigation...

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