Legal Opinion
Posey v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 17, 1969No. 25654PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEHRTENS, District Judge:
After a trial on an indictment charging eighteen persons with violating 18 U.S.C. § 241 by conspiring to injure, threaten, oppress and intimidate Michael Schwerner, James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman in the free exercise of their Constitutional rights not to be deprived of life or liberty without due process of law, the jury found seven of the defendants guilty and eight not guilty. There was a mistrial as to the other three. Motions for a new trial were denied and the convicted defendants appealed. We affirm.
Appellants assert that numerous errors were committed in…
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