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IX. MOTIONS FOR JUDGMENTS OF ACQUITTAL AND NEW TRIALS \ All defendants have moved on multiple grounds: for judgments of acquittal or alternatively for new trials. : Additional briefs on these motions were submitted by the Myers defendants and by Murphy and by Thompson. Lederer has relied upon the material included in his principal . @ brief on the "due process'! issues. A. The Myers Motions. In support. of their motions, the Myers defendants bas “C urge all of the grounds that they advanced in connection ° with the due process issues and in addition, argue (1) ‘ that the court erred on various instructions to the jury, particularly with respect to the credibility of witnesses; . (2) that defendant Errichetti's trial should have been _ severed from that of the other defendants; (3) that the . evidence was insufficient with respect to Criden and Johanson; (4) that the prosecutor's summation was improper; (5) ‘that the court's jury selection procedure was improper; (6) that venue of the case in Brooklyn had been improperly . "manufactured" by the government; (7) that there were certain” violations of Brady v. Maryland, 373 US 83 (1963), particular- ly with respect to the government's failure to disclose . information bearing upon the credibility of Weinberg as a witness; and (8) that there was.error in permitting. the pew ven . . ‘ 5 ~ ; | ' ! | | ! | ! | | i | | | | | Ll +. H i 1 ; t i ‘ I a 4 f { _ : ~ es rr)