United States Third Circuit

Conviction and sentence for distribution of cocaine base are vacated and remanded for a new trial where: 1) the district court erred in admitting the written statement of a confidential informant as a present-sense impression; and 2) this was not harmless error.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/05/2008
• Decided 02/18/2009
• Published 02/18/2009

Judges

• Before:  AMBRO, CHAGARES and COWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen P. Patrizio, Esq. (Argued), Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert F. Kravetz, Esq. (Argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Wilmington, DE, for Appellee.