Legal Opinion
United States v. Jack Lang, Walter Soots, Ralph Smith and Rick Corder
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 6, 1981No. 78-1557, 78-1583, 78-1585, and 78-1589PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRANT, Senior District Judge.
This appeal presents several issues arising from the defendants’ conviction for mail and wire fraud. 1 The defendants’ first contention is that the indicting grand jury was incorrectly constituted with respect to both due process guarantees and Fed.R.Crim.P. 6(f), due to the fact that substitutions were made for a number of grand jurors during the course of the lengthy investigation in this case. Second, the defendants contend that the petit jury was incorrectly instructed when the trial court rejected the defendants’ supplemental instructions and chose to fully…
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