United States Second Circuit

In case involving falsifying search warrants, armed robbery from drug dealers, and use of violent tactics against suspects, convictions of former police officers for violating civil rights under color of law and conspiracy to do so, and carrying a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence are affirmed over claims that violations of 18 U.S.C. sections 242 and 241 are not crimes of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. section 924(c).

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/30/2006
• Published 11/30/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before JACOBS, Chief Judge, B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judge, and OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General (Jessica Dunsay Silver, Angela M. Miller, on the brief), Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee., David J. Seeger (Leigh E. Anderson, on the brief), Buffalo, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Sylvestre Acosta., Patrick J. Brown, LoTempio & Brown, P.C., Buffalo, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Paul Skinner.