United States v. Hayes

OPINION

WEBER, District Judge.

Defendants William Edward Hayes, Jr. and Patrick Edward Mertens have filed motions for a new trial following their convictions on the conspiracy count and all substantive counts as charged in the indictment. Many of the grounds pleaded in these motions had been considered and ruled on at a previous stage of these proceedings in pretrial motions and hearings. Upon reconsideration of each of the defendants’ claims we find no cause to reverse our prior holdings.

The first claim of error is the denial of the pretrial motions of both defendants for a bill of…