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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 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 Lili thant e rene mere 4 ot we wey we A cpap sees Ree wermemene mer We rer ahem penne emoment, -ernery ete eign net ene s : an "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