U.S. v. DEBS

No. 91-1149.

949 F.2d 199 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard DEBS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 13, 1991.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 6, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen Moro Nesi, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued and briefed), Lynn A. Helland, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellee.

Harold Gurewitz (argued and briefed), Dise & Gurewitz, Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellant.

Before RYAN and SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 6, 1992.

SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Richard Debs, once the President of United Automobile Workers Local 1776, was indicted for violations of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951. Three counts of the indictment alleged that Debs solicited others to do wrongful violence to Robert Harlow to induce Harlow and others not to oppose Debs in the 1989 election for union president, "thereby attempting to deprive...

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