United States Second Circuit

Conviction for securities fraud related offenses is affirmed where there is no doctrinal obstacle to employing a conscious avoidance instruction in the context of a two-person securities fraud conspiracy.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/17/2003
• Decided 10/24/2003
• Published 10/24/2003

Judges

• SCULLIN, Chief District Judge., Before:  LEVAL, RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and SCULLIN, Chief District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Alan M. Dershowitz, Esq., Cambridge, Massachusetts (Nathan Z. Dershowitz, Esq., Dershowitz, Eiger & Adelson, P.C., New York, New York, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant., Steven R. Peiken, Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, New York, New York (James B. Comey, United States Attorney, Jason Sabot and Gary Stein, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Appellee.