United States Second Circuit

Conviction and sentence for bribery, fraud, money-laundering, and false-statement charges, for defendant's role in former Treasurer of the State of Connecticut Paul Silvester's allegedly unlawful investment of state pension funds, is affirmed over primary claim that the district court violated defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel when, after defendant's first day of cross-examination, the court temporarily ordered defense counsel not talk with the defendant about his testimony during the evening recess.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/25/2007
• Published 05/25/2007

Judges

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

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeremiah Donovan, Old Saybrook, CT, for Defendant-Appellant., William J. Nardini, Assistant United States Attorney (David A. Ring, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for John H. Durham, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT, for Appellee.