United States Second Circuit

Conviction for importing and possessing heroin with the intent to distribute is affirmed over claim that the district court should not have instructed the jury on the theory of conscious avoidance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/21/2003
• Published 07/21/2003

Judges

• WINTER, Circuit Judge., Before:  WINTER, CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and AMON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Seth L. Levine, Assistant United States Attorney, for Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (Cecil C. Scott, Seth L. Levine, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee., David Wikstrom, Law Office of David Wikstrom, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant.