United States v. Chandler

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

In December, 1976, a federal grand jury for the Northern District of Georgia indicted thirty-one individuals on nine counts *596charging conspiracy and substantive offenses for the theft, interstate transportation, and receipt of gasoline from interstate pipelines. This mammoth case concerned three illegal taps on interstate gasoline pipelines in the vicinity of Tallapoosa, Georgia. According to the government’s theory of the case, the scheme was run by a central core of organizers and financial backers supported by a working group that tapped the pipelines and delivered the…