United States Second Circuit

Defendants' wire fraud and money laundering convictions are affirmed over their challenge that the district court violated their Confrontation Clause rights by permitting the government to introduce at trial three co-conspirators' guilty plea allocations to establish the existence of the conspiracy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/28/2004
• Published 07/28/2004

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  SACK, SOTOMAYOR, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Alexei Schacht, Nalven & Schacht, Astoria, NY, for defendant-appellant Robert Martins., Bobbi C. Sternheim, New York, NY, for defendant-appellant Antonio Guastella., Gary Stein, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the brief;  Michael Schachter, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), New York, NY, for appellee.