UNITED STATES v. LYNCH

No. 85-1599.

792 F.2d 269 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Harold LYNCH, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 4, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Dwyer, Jr. with whom Maurice T. Cunningham and Dwyer & Murray, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

William C. Bryson, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., with whom William F. Weld, U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BOWNES and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

Harold Lynch, the former president of Local 33 of the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers ("the Union"), appeals from his convictions in the district court of the misdemeanor offense of using violence and threats of violence to prevent other Union members from exercising their rights of speech and assembly within the Union.

In the summer of 1983, two Union members, Barry Finn and Thomas Piscatelli, violated...

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