United States Second Circuit

Defendant's conviction of various counts related to three arsons and the robbery of a money courier are affirmed over his claims that: 1) the federal arson statute is unconstitutional as applied to the arson of a closed diner; 2) the district court erred in crediting a special agent's account of the arrest; and 3) he received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/06/2008
• Published 05/06/2008

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge:, Before: STRAUB, POOLER and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph J. Ferrante, Islandia, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., Lara Treinis Gatz, Assistant United States Attorney (David C. James, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel, Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, on the brief), Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee.