United States v. Torres

MEMORANDUM

LEIGHTON, District Judge.

In this criminal case, two national electronics news media corporations, National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (“NBC”), and American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (“ABC”), move the court for leave to intervene. Their interest in this prosecution is the prospect that at trial before a jury the evidence against defendants will include tapes of intercepted aural and visual communications, which, according to the government, show that before their arrest, defendants were engaged in a seditious conspiracy against the United States, one of the charges in this…