United States Second Circuit

Defendants' convictions and sentences for offenses arising from their communications to government investigators probing certain trading activity are affirmed over meritless claims of error except insofar as one defendant's sentence is remanded for reconsideration in light of Booker and Crosby.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/06/2006
• Published 01/09/2006

Judges

• HALL, Circuit Judge., Before:  NEWMAN, WESLEY, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Walter E. Dellinger, O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Pamela A. Harris, Jeremy Maltby, Matthew M. Shors, Toby Heytens, Maritza U.B. Okata, on the brief), Washington, DC, Martin G. Weinberg, Boston, MA, David Z. Chesnoff, Las Vegas, NV for Defendant-Appellant Martha Stewart., Richard M. Strassberg, Goodwin Procter, LLP (David J. Apfel, Cheryl R. Brunetti, Shannon J. Siragusa, on the brief), Boston MA for Defendant-Appellant Peter Bacanovic., Michael S. Schachter, Assistant United States Attorney (David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Karen Patton Seymour, William A. Burck, Celeste L. Koeleveld, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), New York, N.Y. for Appellee United States of America.