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- Title: United States V. Mccoy
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Release Date : January 04, 1990
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 75 KB
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The appeal before us centers on claims that insufficient evidence supported convictions relating to conspiracies among several incarcerated prisoners and their confederates. Two conspiracies allegedly existed: first, a scheme to kill federal witnesses involving prisoners Robert Nance and John P. McCoy, and their nonincarcerated acquaintances, Vondia Clary and Kennis McCoy;*fn1 second, a scheme to escape prison involving Nance, Clary, and McCoy. Both plans depended on the services of William E. Cremeans. Cremeans, a fellow prisoner with McCoy and Nance, allegedly agreed to have his bail paid and then, in return, kill various witnesses whom McCoy and Nance wanted liquidated and help them escape from jail. After Cremeans advised the government of the incipient plan, the FBI arranged body wires and phone tappings of Cremeans' activities. The FBI even went so far as to pretend that one witness, Carolyn Runyon Smith, the ex-wife of prisoner Harold "Boonie" Runyon, actually had been killed. Runyon, who pleaded to other charges and served as a government informant, was not indicted, although he admitted involvement in both plans. At a joint trial, a jury found the three defendants other than Kennis McCoy guilty on all counts of the indictment relating to conspiracies to kill and to attempt to kill federal witnesses and to escape from detention. Kennis McCoy was found guilty of the conspiracy charge for attempt to kill but not of the conspiracy to attempt to escape.
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