UNITED STATES v. WATCHMAKER

No. 83-3425.

761 F.2d 1459 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ronald WATCHMAKER, a/k/a "Arab"; Christopher Keating, a/k/a "Louie the Lip"; Eugene Michael Marcaccio, Jr., a/k/a "Mad Mike"; Wilson Tony Harrell, a/k/a "Roadblock", a/k/a "RB"; Roger White, a/k/a "Mighty Mite"; Harry Ruby, a/k/a "Harpo"; Kenneth Hart, Charles Gibson, Scott Seaver, a/k/a "Buzzard"; Edward L. Lackey; Charles E. Graves, a/k/a "Vulcher", a/k/a "Vulture", Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearings and Rehearings Denied July 29, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Fletcher, Jacksonville, Fla., for Watchmaker.

Bruce J. Greenspan, Jacksonville, Fla., for Keating.

Randall J. Silverberg, Jacksonville, Fla., for Marcaccio.

Robert Stuart Willis, Jacksonville, Fla., for Harrell.

Robert B. Persons, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., for White.

Ralph J. Humphries, Jacksonville, Fla., for Ruby.

John P. Stone, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., for Hart.

Hugh Cotney, Jacksonville, Fla., for Gibson.

Brent D. Shore, Jacksonville, Fla., for Seaver.

Eugene F. Murphy, Jacksonville, Fla., for Lackey.

Jack M. Schemer, Jacksonville, Fla., for Graves.

John E. Steele, Asst. U.S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., Lee Wm. Atkinson, Tampa, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KRAVITCH and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearings and Rehearings En Banc Denied July 29, 1985.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

On October 6, 1982, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against 16 "patchwearing" and probate members of the Outlaw Motorcycle Club. Charges were brought under provisions of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1962(c) and (d), alleging substantive violation of and conspiracy to violate the statute. Fourteen of these defendants were tried...

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