United States Second Circuit

Conviction and sentence for racketeering, firearms, and narcotics violations are affirmed over primary claim that the district court violated defendant's Confrontation Clause rights when it allowed certain witnesses to describe statements made by a declarant whose murder the court found defendant had procured.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/08/2007
• Published 05/08/2007

Judges

• KEARSE, Circuit Judge:, Before: KEARSE and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and KOELTL, District Judge .

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey Goldberg, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, New York (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Peter A. Norling, Alyssa A. Qualls, Assistant United States Attorneys, Brooklyn, New York, on the brief), for Appellee., Edward D. Wilford, New York, New York (Anthony L. Ricco, Steven Z. Legon, New York, New York, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant.