United States v. Edwin P. Wilson

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

Convicted by jury of conspiracy, 18 U.S.C. § 371, and of substantive counts arising out of an illegal shipment of plastic explosives, contrary to 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1001, 22 U.S.C. § 2778(c), and 49 U.S.C. § 1809(b), Edwin P. Wilson appeals, assigning multiple errors. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

Procedural Background

Wilson, Edward Bloom and Donald Thresher were indicted for conspiracy to make an illegal shipment of twenty tons of C-4 plastic explosives from Houston, Texas to Tripoli, Libya in October 1977. Bloom and Thresher were severed. Bloom was separately…