The Nation - News from March 29, 1985

A federal appeals court in New York ruled that stringent security measures did not prejudice the trial of four persons convicted in prosecutions arising from the bloody 1981 robbery of a Brink’s armored car which led to the deaths of two policemen and a guard. The court upheld the September, 1983, convictions of Sekou Odinga, Silvia Baraldini, Cecil Ferguson and Edward Joseph, who prosecutors said were members of a violent ring of radicals. The three-judge panel said that not publicly disclosing the names of the jurors did not deprive the four of a fair trial and that court-ordered electronic surveillance was proper.