UNITED STATES v. LANZA

Crim. No. 71-83.

349 F.Supp. 929 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America v. Joseph Louis LANZA, also known as Joe Lanza, et al.

United States District Court, M. D. Florida, Orlando Division.

October 10, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard H. Dempsey, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Tampa, Fla., for the United States.

Walter G. Arnold, Jacksonville, Fla. and Edwin C. Cluster, Ocala, Fla., for Roy Thaggard Boyd.

James S. Byrd, Orlando, Fla., for Phillip C. Riffe.

Donald R. Corbett, Orlando, Fla., for Donald Miles.

Clinton A. Curtis, Jack P. Brandon, Lake Wales, Fla., for Vincent M. Razzano.

Leo W. Haley, Orlando, Fla., for James C. Britt, Peggy Ann Britt and Carrie Wise.

Edward R. Kirkland, Orlando, Fla., for Lee Massey, and William Anderson Fox.

Richard C. Langford, Lakeland, Fla., for Lillian Lockett, Janie Simon, Lee Lockett, Leroy Johnson, Mary Williams, Catherine Williams, Thelma McClary, James Ned Weaver, Gertrude Norman, Leola Ellis, Margaret Pressley, Joe Glover, Ruth Glover, Lula Mae Giles, Maggie Smith, Eddie Holland, and John Ray Simon.

Arnold D. Levine, Tampa, Fla., for John Newton Fountain.

David M. Porter, Orlando, Fla., for Ida Wall Silas, James Crabtree, Samuel Eugene White, William Ralph Strawder, Eloise Graham, Eddie Mitchell and Louis Constantino.

Frank Ragano, Tampa, Fla., for Joe Louis Lanza and Anne Fusco.

Richard S. Rhodes, Orlando, Fla., for Morris Engle, Richard Mercier, and Charles Edward McCuen.

James M. Russ, Orlando, Fla., for Donald B. Smith.

Michael Sigman, Orlando, Fla., for Morris Solomon Bort, Ester Cobbin McGee, and Louis B. Pacheco.

Dan R. Warren, Daytona Beach, Fla., for John Narducci, and Bruce O'Malley.

Andrew A. Welch, Orlando, Fla., for Henry A. Finkelstein, Matthew Smith, Frank Del Rosso, Robert Steve Shellhorn, Orville Johnson, III and Larry Gonzales.


ORDER

TJOFLAT, District Judge.

On March 30, 1972, this Court entered an Order denying in part the motion of the sixty defendants in this organized crime gambling prosecution to suppress the evidence obtained through court-ordered wiretaps.1 Subsequently, at a hearing on April 20, 1972, in Jacksonville, Florida, the parties concluded their evidence and arguments on the motion to suppress. Accordingly, this Order will dispose of...

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