UNITED STATES v. SILVERSTEIN

Nos. 82-2453, 82-2454, 82-2456 and 82-2457.

732 F.2d 1338 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas E. SILVERSTEIN, Adolph Reynosa, Clayton A. Fountain, and Edgar Hevle, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 26, 1984.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearings and Rehearing July 26, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellen Robinson, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

William J. Linklater, William Lynch Schaller, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant Edgar Hevle.

Michael B. Nash, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant Clayton A. Fountain.

Patricia C. Bobb, Bobb, Kane, Obbish & Propes, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant Thomas E. Silverstein.

Robert T. Coleman, Asst. U.S. Atty., East St. Louis, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PELL and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and PARSONS, Senior District Judge.


As Amended on Denial of Rehearings and Rehearing En Banc July 26, 1984.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

These appeals by Thomas Silverstein, Clayton Fountain, Edgar Hevle, and Adolph Reynosa from their convictions for complicity in the murder of an inmate at Marion Penitentiary, the nation's maximum-security federal prison, Garza v. Miller, 688 F.2d 480, 482 (7th Cir.1982), afford a horrifying glimpse of the sordid and lethal...

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