United States Second Circuit

Conviction for conspiracy to commit murder and assault with a dangerous weapon, both for the purpose of increasing and maintaining a position in a racketeering enterprise, and related offenses are affirmed. Although the prosecutor erred by vouching to the jury that the government's cooperating accomplices had never perjured themselves or falsely implicated anybody in a crime, her improper remarks did not justify disturbing the verdict.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/31/2008
• Published 12/31/2008

Judges

• LEVAL, Circuit Judge:, Before: LEVAL, WESLEY, LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ephraim Savitt, New York, NY, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jo Ann M. Navickas, Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (David C. James, Assistant United States Attorney, and Benton J. Campbell, United States Attorney, on the brief), for Appellee.