United States v. David T. Lace, Roger R. Ducharme, Gary D. Butts, Patricia Eckman, and Glenn Pollack

VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

On this appeal, we are confronted once again with a case in which every issue has been tried except that of guilt. On December 17, 1979, appellants were indicted for narcotics violations in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. During the ensuing ten months, appellants presented Chief Judge Holden of the District Court of Vermont with more than eighty pre-trial motions. These were followed by a fourteen day hearing on appellants’ combined motions to suppress. When these motions were denied in substantial part, see United States v. Lace,…