UNITED STATES v. SINGER

Nos. 81-1654, 81-1673, 81-1677, 81-1678 and 81-1679.

710 F.2d 431 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Mark Lewis SINGER, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Oakley Bechtel CLINE, III, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Joseph Michael SAZENSKI, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Arturo IZQUIERDO, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John Patrick REYNOLDS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meshbesher, Singer & Spence, Ltd., Ronald I. Meshbesher, Carol M. Grant, Minneapolis, Minn., for Mark Lewis Singer.

Bruce Hartigan, Minneapolis, Minn., for Oakley Bechtel Cline, III.

James M. Rosenbaum, U.S. Atty., Daniel W. Schermer, Asst. U.S. Atty., D. Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee.

Friedberg & Peterson, Mark W. Peterson, Minneapolis, Minn., for Joseph Michael Sazenski.

Phillip S. Resnick, Resnick & Bartsh, Minneapolis, Minn., for Arturo Izquierdo.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, HEANEY, BRIGHT and ROSS, Circuit Judges, HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and McMILLIAN, ARNOLD, JOHN R. GIBSON and FAGG, Circuit Judges, en banc.


ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Defendants Mark Lewis Singer, Oakley Bechtel Cline, III, Arturo Izquierdo, Joseph Michael Sazenski, and John Patrick Reynolds appeal from their convictions on a number of drug-related offenses. The principal question presented is whether the District Court so far injected itself into the trial as to give the jury the impression that it favored the prosecution, thus depriving defendants of a fair trial. Although this is by no means a case of...

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