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UNITED STATES v. PRESCOTT

No. 80-7736.

672 F.2d 882 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard H. PRESCOTT, Jr., Jesse E. Threlkeld, Acy L. Long, Harold D. Sheffield & William F. Mann, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 13, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles N. McKnight, Mobile, Ala., for R. Prescott.

Barry Hess, Virginia A. Johnston, Mobile, Ala., for Threlkeld.

Edward B. McDermott, Mobile, Ala., for Long and Sheffield.

John M. Tyson, John M. Tyson, Jr., Mobile, Ala., for Mann.

W. A. Kimbrough, Jr., U. S. Atty., William R. Fayre, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TJOFLAT, HILL and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

Richard H. Prescott, Jr., Acy L. Long, Harold D. Sheffield, Jesse E. Threlkeld and William F. Mann, all former officials of the City of Saraland, Alabama, were convicted by a jury of conspiring to use their offices to extract payoffs and kickbacks in violation of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (1976).1 In addition, each was convicted of committing from one to ten substantive violations of the Hobbs Act by...

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