Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee v. Marvin MANDEL, Appellant; UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. W. Dale HESS, Appellant; UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Harry W. RODGERS, III, Appellant; UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. William A. RODGERS, Appellant; UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Irvin KOVENS, Appellant; UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ernest N. CORY, Jr., Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1979-07-20
Citations: 602 F.2d 653
Docket Number: Nos. 77-2487—77-2492
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee v. Marvin MANDEL, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. W. Dale HESS, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Harry W. RODGERS, III, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. William A. RODGERS, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Irvin KOVENS, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ernest N. CORY, Jr., Appellant.
Judges: Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BUTZNER, RUSSELL, WIDENER, HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 602
Pages: 653–657

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee v. Marvin MANDEL, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. W. Dale HESS, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Harry W. RODGERS, III, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. William A. RODGERS, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Irvin KOVENS, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ernest N. CORY, Jr., Appellant.
Nos. 77-2487—77-2492.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Heard En Banc June 5, 1979.
Decided July 20, 1979.
Second Rehearing En Banc Denied Nov. 1, 1979.
Arnold M. Weiner, Baltimore, Md., for appellant Marvin Mandel (Eugene Gressman, School of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C., on brief), for appellants in 77-2487 through 77-2491; (D. Christopher Ohly, M. Albert Figinski, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant Marvin Mandel; (William G. Hundley, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellant W. Dale Hess; (Thomas C. Green, William W. Taylor, III, Washington, D. C., on brief) for appellant Harry W. Rodgers, III (Michael E. Marr, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant William A. Rodgers; (Norman P. Ramsey, William F. Gately, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant Irvin Kovens; (Charles G. Bernstein and Michael Schatzow, Baltimore, Md., William C. Brennan, Jr., DePaul, Willoner & Kenkel, College Park, Md., on brief), for appellant Ernest N. Cory, Jr..
Daniel J. Hurson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md. (Russell T. Baker, Jr., U. S. Atty., Barnet D. Skolnik and Elizabeth H. Trimble, Asst. U. S. Attys., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee United States of America.
Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BUTZNER, RUSSELL, WIDENER, HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
The judgments of conviction are affirmed by an equally divided court.
A majority of the members of the en banc court would affirm the judgments of conviction against all of the contentions of the appellants except the claim of error in the charge to the jury which was the point upon which there was equal division.
AFFIRMED.