United States v. Turner

OPINION

Before MERRILL, KOELSCH and KILKENNY, Circuit Judges.

Fourteen separate appeals have been consolidated for argument and disposition. They result from different jury trials and trials before the court without jury and are consolidated because they relate to the same alleged conspiracy or to substantive offenses committed pursuant to it or to facilitate its purposes, and for the further reason that all appellants assert a common grievance: that their convictions resulted from illegal telephone taps.1

The Government alleged that on a date unknown defendant Joseph Levi Ethridge had organized…