United States Second Circuit

In the context of rival motorcycle gangs, the talk of "war" and grabbing shirts from rival members is insufficient to support a conspiracy conviction for assaulting members of a rival gang under 18 USC 1959(a)(6).

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/09/2001
• Published 08/09/2001

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge:, Before: JACOBS, STRAUB, SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gary R. Brown, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Susan Corkery and Leonard Lato, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Appellee., Terrence P. Buckley, Law Office of Terrence P. Buckley, Islandia, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.