United States Second Circuit

Conviction of conspiracy to commit money laundering and trafficking in contraband cigarettes is affirmed over claim that a defense attorney's purported twenty minute absence from the courtroom during a testimonial phase of a criminal trial constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/12/2007
• Published 09/12/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before: CALABRESI, RAGGI, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephan J. Baczynski, Assistant United States Attorney, for Terrance P. Flynn, United States Attorney for the Western District of New York, Buffalo, N.Y., for Appellee., Herbert L. Greenman, Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria LLP, Buffalo, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Aref Ahmed;  Thomas Theophilos, Law Offices of John Pieri, Buffalo, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Rmzy Abdullah;  Jeremy D. Schwartz, Eoannou, Lana & D'Amico, Buffalo, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Azzeaz Saleh;  Jeremy Gutman (Maria G. Giordano, on the brief), New York, N.Y. for Defendant-Appellant Mohamed Abuhamra;  Michael G. O'Rourke, Buffalo, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Nagib Aziz.