United States v. Isaac J. Tindle

Isaac Tindle has a direct appeal from convictions for armed kidnapping, armed robbery, assault with a dangerous weapon and extortion currently pending in this Court (No. 74-1735). We are not here concerned with the merits of that appeal. 1 On October 25, 1974, the chief judge granted Tindle’s unopposed motion to postpone filing his brief, until 21 days after the District Court ruled on a De-Coster motion for a new trial he contemplated making. 2 That motion was filed in December 1974, and denied without a hearing by the District Court on January 8, 1975. A motion to reconsider was denied on…