United States v. Grandison

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Anthony Grandison, Vernon Evans, Jr., Janet Patricia Moore, and Rodney Kelly were indicted for conspiracy to violate civil rights, 18 U.S.C. § 241, and witness tampering, 18 U.S.C. § 1512. Those federal charges grew out of the brutal murder of two motel employees, one of whom, Scott Piechowicz, was in a position to identify Grandison as someone who visited the motel in early November 1982.1 The testimony as to the whereabouts of Grandison was significant to establish Grandison’s guilt in a federal narcotics case, initiated in November 1982, for which trial was pending…