United States v. Phillips

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON RENEWED MOTION OF DEFENDANT BLEDSOE TO SUPPRESS EVIDENCE OF FELONY CONVICTION, JOINED BY OTHER DEFENDANTS, SIMILAR MOTION OF DEFENDANT CLONINGER, AND MOTION TO SEVER OF THE DEFENDANT STAFFORD

URBOM, Chief Judge.

The defendants Bledsoe and Burks 1 are on trial with four other defendants on charges of conspiracy, racketeering, mail fraud and securities fraud brought under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961, 1962, 1963, 1341 and 2, and 15 U.S.C. §§ 77q(a) and 77x.

Present charges center upon activities of the defendants with two agricultural cooperatives that operated in Missouri, one…