United States Second Circuit

Defendants' Hobbs Act robbery convictions are reversed where the district court committed Confrontation Clause error by admitting a post arrest statement made by a co-defendant against them.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/04/2005
• Published 10/04/2005

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge., Before:  CALABRESI, POOLER, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen A. Miller, Assistant United States Attorney (David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Katherine Polk Failla, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief) for Appellee., Joel K. Dranove, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Angel Rodriguez., George R. Goltzer, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Faustino Delarosa., Amelio P. Marino, Marino & Veneziano, New York, N.Y. for Defendant-Appellant Edgardo Vazquez Baez., B. Alan Seidler, New York, N.Y. for Defendant-Appellant Kenneth Rodriguez.