United States v. Lonnie Melvin Murray, United States of America v. Oliver Curtis Roberts, United States of America v. Roosevelt Walker, Hernandez Cases. Group II Appeals
Opinion
Opinion
492 F.2d 178 UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lonnie Melvin MURRAY, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Oliver Curtis ROBERTS, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roosevelt WALKER, Defendant-Appellant. HERNANDEZ CASES. Group II Appeals. Nos. 71-2088-71-2090. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Feb. 16, 1973. Donald S. Friedman (argued), of O'Gara & O'Gara, San Francisco, Cal., David K. Yamakawa, Jr. (argued), San Francisco, Cal., Barry Tarlow (argued), Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellants. James W. Meyers, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Phillip W. Johnson, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry D. Steward, U.S. Atty., San Diego, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee. Before HAMLEY and CHOY, Circuit Judge, and SCHNACKE, * District judge. HAMLEY, Circuit Judge: 1 In our opinion filed today in the Group I appeals in the Hernandez Cases, United States v. Baxter, et al., 492 F.2d 150 (9th Cir. 1973), the general background of an extensive alleged narcotics conspiracy is set out in considerable detail. As there indicated, the district court had divided the forty-nine defendants named in a two-count…