United States v. Donald Eugene Ryans D/B/A Ryans Moving & Storage and Westside Movers

HOLLOWAY, Chief Judge.

The government appeals from a pretrial order of the district court granting the defendant-appellee’s motion to suppress evidence as to two tape recordings in this criminal proceeding. This court has jurisdiction of the appeal pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3731.

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Defendant-appellee Donald Eugene Ryans (“Ryans”) was charged with conspiring, together with unnamed co-conspirators, to restrain and suppress competition in the provision of moving services from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in unreasonable restraint of interstate trade and commerce, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman…