UNITED STATES v. LACE

Nos. 1560, 1561, 1563, 1562, 1542, Dockets 81-1098, 1099, 1102, 1100, 1103.

669 F.2d 46 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David T. LACE, Roger R. Ducharme, Gary D. Butts, Patricia Eckman, and Glenn Pollack, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford J. Steele, Atlanta, Ga., for appellant Lace.

Paul J. Cambria, Jr., Buffalo, N. Y. (Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Schuller & James, Barbara Davies Eberl, Buffalo, N. Y., on the brief), for appellant Ducharme.

Robert G. Fierer, Atlanta, Ga., for appellant Butts.

Lewis K. Sussman, Burlington, Vt. (Agel, Carroll & Sussman, Burlington, Vt.) for appellant Pollack.

Ellen Mercer Fallon, Middlebury, Vt. (Langrock, Sperry, Parker & Stahl, Middlebury, Vt.), for appellant Eckman.

Peter W. Hall, Asst. U. S. Atty., Rutland, Vt. (Jerome F. O'Neill, U. S. Atty., D. Vermont, Jerome J. Niedermeier, Rutland, Vt., of counsel), for appellee.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, District Judge.


VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

On this appeal, we are confronted once again with a case in which every issue has been tried except that of guilt. On December 17, 1979, appellants were indicted for narcotics violations in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. During the ensuing ten months, appellants presented Chief Judge Holden of the District Court of Vermont with more than eighty pre-trial motions. These were followed by a fourteen day hearing...

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