U.S. v. PATTERSON

Nos. 85-1236, 85-1237, 85-1238, 85-1239 and 85-1240.

819 F.2d 1495 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Randy Lamont PATTERSON aka Randy Brown, Marcus Wayne Edmundson, Tony Burton, Don Grogans, and Billy Ray Brown, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided June 15, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcus S. Topel, Gregory D. Guy-Smith, San Francisco, Cal., Kurt Seibert, John Williams, San Jose, Cal., Charles Gretsch, San Francisco, Cal., Paul Delano Wolf, Oakland, Cal., for defendants-appellants.

Sanford Svetcov, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before ANDERSON, SKOPIL and CANBY, Circuit Judges.


J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves a multiplicity of issues, all spawned from the prosecution of a heroin distribution conspiracy. We affirm the convictions and the sentences, recognizing the district judge's outstanding efforts in conducting such a complex and exhaustive trial.

I. BACKGROUND

Unless otherwise stated in the text of this opinion, the facts are substantially as follows: Early in 1976, a criminal enterprise subsequently...

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