United States v. Willie Langston, Charles Dean, Pete Melton, A/K/A Robert E. Melton

In a trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida a jury found William Langston, Pete Melton and Charles Dean guilty of numerous crimes and misdemeanors involving the theft, conversion and removal of trees and timber from the Apalachicola National Forest. 1 Langston maintains that his conviction should be reversed because of outrageous conduct by the government agents. Melton also raises that issue along with several others, including (1) a violation of the sixth amendment protection against double jeopardy, (2) the improper aggregation of the “takings” to…