United States Second Circuit
US v. RIVAS, 03-1649
In a drug case, defendant successfully challenged the denial of a motion for a new trial on grounds that the government failed to disclose allegedly exculpatory evidence until after the jury verdict and such evidence had a sufficiently exculpatory component to warrant a new trial.
Appellate Information
- Decided 07/26/2004
- Published 07/26/2004
Judges
- NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before: NEWMAN, CALABRESI, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Second Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Colleen P. Cassidy, New York, N.Y., (Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender, Division Appeals Bureau, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant., Samuel G. Williamson, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York, N.Y. (David N. Kelley, U.S., Atty., Adam B. Siegel, Asst. U.S., Atty., New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Appellee.