United States Second Circuit

Defendant successfully challenged his drug conviction based on 1)the breadth of defendant's claim of ineffectiveness, 2)serious criminal allegations against his trial counsel, and 3) the possibility that the recent revelations will suggest additional defects in the quality of defendant's trial representation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/30/2004
• Published 07/30/2004

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge., Before:  WINTER, JACOBS, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Dawn M. Cardi, Dawn M. Cardi & Associates, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., Jeffrey A. Udell, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Jonathan R. Streeter, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, of counsel;  David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the brief), for Appellee.