UNITED STATES v. PROVENZANO

Crim. No. 79-72.

521 F.Supp. 403 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Anthony PROVENZANO, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

September 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Robertson, U. S. Atty., Newark, N. J. by Jeffrey Speiser, Asst. U. S. Atty., Newark, N. J., for the Government.

Harvey Weissbard, West Orange, N. J., and Maurice Edelbaum, New York City, for defendant Provenzano.

John L. Pollok, New York City, for defendant Thomas Andretta.

Donald R. Conway, Hackensack, N. J., for defendant Stephen Andretta.


MEANOR, District Judge.

It is quite certain that this nation's founding fathers, the framers of our Federal Constitution and the Bill of Rights, never envisioned that the right of a criminal defendant to a speedy and public trial in an arena where witnesses could be confronted by cross-examination, would evolve into merely a dress rehearsal for a long-running soap opera of post-conviction relief. The longer such a drama runs, the less faith society has in a system...

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