Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit June 4, 1990, 89-1234, 89-1260 and 89-1274 (United States v. Victor Johnson, Michael Joiner, and Melvin Buford)

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

The defendants Victor Johnson, Michael Joiner, and Melvin Buford were charged in an indictment returned on June 16, 1988, with intimidating a witness in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b) (Count II), retaliating against a witness in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1513 (Count III), using a firearm in commission of a felony in violation of 18 U.S.C.