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Judges and Judiciary

Apr. 16, 2003

High-Security Makeover for Gang Trial

SAN FRANCISCO - In what may be a sign of the times, federal judges in San Francisco plan to transform a spare courtroom into a high-security facility to handle multi-defendant cases such as the upcoming racketeering trial of 21 reputed Nuestra Familia prison gang members and the alleged members of the Big Block drug gang.

By Pamela A. MacLean
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - In what may be a sign of the times, federal judges in San Francisco plan to transform a spare courtroom into a high-security facility to handle multi-defendant cases such as the upcoming racketeering trial of 21 reputed Nuestra Familia prison gang members and the alleged members of the...

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