United States v. James M. Boyd

PAY, Circuit Judge:

The defendant, James M. Boyd, was indicted on April 8, 1976, and charged with conducting a gambling business in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1955 and conspiring to conduct such a business in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. The joint trial of Boyd and three co-defendants commenced on April 2, 1976. 1 During the trial, the government introduced into evidence a complete transcript of 282 taped telephone conversations and played to the jury approximately 91 of these conversations. Boyd was a participant in some but not all of the-conversations. At the conclusion of the government’s…