UNITED STATES v. WATCHMAKER

No. 83-3425.

766 F.2d 1493 (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.

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.

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

John E. Steele, Asst. U.S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., and Lee Wm. Atkinson, Tampa Office, for U.S.

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


PER CURIAM:

The Petitions for Panel Rehearing are DENIED. Appellants claim that statements of the trial judge at an ex parte meeting with one of the jurors constituted reversible error. At this meeting, conducted outside the presence of counsel, the juror complained that she feared reprisal from defendants or their associates if the jury returned a verdict of guilty. United States v. Watchmaker, 761...

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