United States Second Circuit

Although some expert testimony interpreting the meaning of telephone conversations recorded through legal wiretaps should have been excluded, the error was harmless, and defendants convictions for conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine are affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/15/2001
• Decided 03/12/2003
• Published 03/12/2003

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, MESKILL, Circuit Judge, and KOELTL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey Wicks, (Craig D. Chartier, on the brief), Bansbach, Zoghlin, Wicks & Wahl, P.C., Rochester, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Samuel Curtis Griffin., Edward S. Zas, Appeals Bureau, Federal Defender Division, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Alvin Leon McGee., Christopher P. Tuite, Assistant United States Attorney, (Kathleen M. Mehltretter, United States Attorney, Western District of New York, on the brief), Rochester, NY, for Appellee.