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UNITED STATES v. WOOD

No. 85-8006.

780 F.2d 955 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mailon Paul WOOD, Kenneth E. Davis, William L. Deering and Winford "Billy" Wood, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 22, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank P. Samford, III (Court-appointed), Decatur, Ga., for Mailon Wood.

Thomas E. Spraley (Court-appointed), Atlanta, Ga., for K. Davis.

Tony H. Hight (Court-appointed), Fairburn, Ga., for Deering.

Stephanie Kearns, Federal Defender Program, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., for W. Wood.

Stephen Cowen, Asst. U.S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., Marie E. Klimesz, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, District Judge.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

I.

A.

This criminal case arises from two incidents of racially motivated violence. On November 23, 1982, appellants Mailon Paul Wood, Kenneth E. Davis, and William L. Deering, along with Lyndon Terrell, all of whom were members of a Ku Klux Klan Klavern in Haralson County, Georgia, decided to "serenade" a white woman whom they felt associated too often with members of the black community. That evening, the four men drove...

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