Leon Bearden v. United States

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

Leon Bearden is now serving a twenty-year sentence for the crime of obstructing interstate commerce. 18 U.S.C. § 1951. His case has been before this Court many times. 1 The present appeal is from the district court’s denial of Bearden’s second motion to vacate. 2 The contentions on appeal are stated in the brief of Bearden’s appointed counsel, as follows:

“When eye witnesses to the alleged crime were permitted, over objections, to deliberate as and with jurors in the secrecy of the jury room, Bearden was denied his constitutional rights to (a) trial by jury; (b) trial by…