United States Second Circuit

Conviction for conspiracy to import ecstasy in the U.S. is affirmed over claims that the district court erred in: 1) instructing the jury that venue in the Southern District of New York could be established by a telephone call placed by an undercover agent in that district to defendant in the Netherlands; and 2) admitting evidence obtained in violation of the mutual legal assistance treaty in effect between the U.S. and the Netherlands, as well as various provisions of the Constitution and the Federal Rules of Evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/05/2007
• Published 11/05/2007

Judges

• REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judge:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, WALKER, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard D. Willstatter, Green & Willstatter, White Plains, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., Kevin R. Puvalowski, Assistant United States Attorney (Scott L. Marrah, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee.