United States Second Circuit

Conviction of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice, with 90-month sentence, is affirmed as U.S.S.G. section 2J1.2, which applies when the offense involved obstructing the investigation or prosecution f a criminal offense, also applies where a defendant is convicted for endeavoring, unsuccessfully, to obstruct justice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/27/2006
• Published 09/28/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before CALABRESI, POOLER, and B.D.PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Hillebrecht, Assistant United States Attorney, for Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the District of New York (Celeste L. Koeleveld, of counsel), for Appellee., Vivian Shevitz (Jane Simkin Smith, of counsel), South Salem, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant.