United States Second Circuit

A jury instruction that a crime involving cocaine or heroin automatically satisfies the interstate commerce element in Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering" offenses under 18 USC 1959(a)(1) and (5) is erroneous.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/29/2000
• Decided 10/03/2001
• Published 10/03/2001

Judges

• F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judge:, Before LEVAL, F.I. PARKER, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joshua L. Dratel, New York, New York (Martin J. Siegel, Marshall A. Mintz, New York, New York, of counsel), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David C. Esseks, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, New York (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas Finnegan, George S. Canellos, New York, New York, of counsel), for Appellee.