UNITED STATES v. DYMAN

Nos. 613, 635, 636 and 639, Dockets 83-1206, 83-1207, 83-1208 and 83-1209.

739 F.2d 762 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Delwright T. DYMAN, Cosimo Mezzapella, a/k/a Joe Cosimo, a/k/a Joseph Rusello, Richard D. Spainhower and Joseph A. Valentino, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. Clifford, Hartford, Conn. (Skelley, Clifford, Vinkels, Williams and Rottner, P.C., Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for appellant Joseph A. Valentino.

Richard S. Cramer, Hartford, Conn. (Joseloff, Joseloff & Cramer, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for appellant Richard D. Spainhower.

M. Hatcher Norris, Glastonbury, Conn., for appellant Delwright T. Dyman.

Paul S. Sherbacow, Hartford, Conn. (Fleischmann, Sherbacow & McWeeney, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for appellant Cosimo Mezzapella.

Alan H. Nevas, U.S. Atty. for the D. Conn., New Haven, Conn. (Richard N. Palmer, Asst. U.S. Atty. for the D. Conn., Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for appellee.

Before LUMBARD, OAKES and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Thanks to information provided by an F.B.I. paid informant, the participants of a scheme to burglarize the Farmington Savings Bank in Farmington, Connecticut, were all captured. Three of the appellants, Cosimo Mezzapella, Richard D. Spainhower and Joseph A. Valentino, were caught inside the bank. The fourth appellant, Delwright T. Dyman, who acted as a lookout, was arrested a few days later. All four now appeal from convictions for bank burglary...

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