United States v. Roemer and Marcello, 703 F.2d 805 (5th Cir. 1983)

A per curiam opinion affirming the convictions of Charles E. Roemer II and Carlos Marcello for conspiring to violate the RICO statute (Brilab), adopting the trial court's reasoning, decided 11 April 1983.

Date: 1983-04-11
Kind: court-opinion
Source: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, via CourtListener
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: No. 82-3040
Rights: A federal court opinion. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The text was read on CourtListener; no publisher headnote is used.

The panel (Goldberg, Gee and Randall) affirms the convictions of Roemer and Marcello for conspiring to violate 18 U.S.C. 1962(d). It rejects four points of error, adopts the trial court’s reasoning from the opinions reported at 508 F. Supp. 586 and 537 F. Supp. 1364, and separately rules on a Jencks Act request for an FBI agent’s handwritten notes. Decided 11 April 1983; rehearing denied 16 May 1983. The CourtListener caption is “United States v. Charles E. Roemer, II and Carlos Marcello.”

This is the appellate end of the Brilab case in this archive’s records.

itemUnited States v. Marcello, 537 F. Supp. 1364 (E.D. La. 1982) (Brilab post-trial opinion)Judge Sear's opinion denying post-trial motions after an eighteen-week trial in which Carlos Marcello and Charles E. Roemer II were found guilty of the Count One RICO conspiracy and acquitted of the other counts, and their co-defendants were acquitted of all charges.itemUnited States v. Marcello, 508 F. Supp. 586 (E.D. La. 1981) (Brilab pretrial rulings)Pretrial rulings in the Brilab prosecution of Carlos Marcello, Charles E. Roemer II, I. Irving Davidson, Vincent Marinello and Aubrey Young: motions to dismiss deferred until trial, other substantive motions denied, and rulings on suppression of recorded conversations and on disclosure of an informer.