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UNITED STATES v. LAYTON

No. CR-80-416 RFP.

519 F.Supp. 942 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Laurence John LAYTON, Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

March 18, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. William Hunter, U. S. Atty., Stanford Svetcov, Robert L. Dondero, Asst. U. S. Attys., San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff United States.

James F. Hewitt, Federal Public Defender, Frank O. Bell, Jr., Chief Asst. Federal Public Defender, Tony Tamburello, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Laurence John Layton.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

PECKHAM, Chief Judge.

Laurence J. Layton, a. k. a. Larry Layton, has been indicted on four counts arising from the events which occurred at Port Kaituma airport in Guyana on November 18, 1978. Those events led to the killing of Congressman Leo Ryan and the wounding of Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission for the United States in the Republic of Guyana.

On October 9, 1980, an indictment was filed which charges Mr. Layton with...

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