United States v. Honorable Jon O. Newman

ROBERT P. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

On April 21,1976 Margaret Lee Robinson was indicted by a Grand Jury in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut for the crime of embezzlement of $1,779 from a federally insured bank in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 656 and for conspiracy to commit that substantive offense, 18 U.S.C. § 371. On the conspiracy count two others, Jethro Brown and Patricia Savarese, were also indicted. The case was assigned for a jury trial to Judge Jon O. Newman and the process of selecting the jury commenced on June 21st. Of the 48 veniremen summoned for jury…