United States Second Circuit

Conviction for drug crimes is affirmed where the evidence was sufficient to show both that defendant knew that cathinone was a controlled substance and that he conspired to possess and distribute that specific substance, and there were no errors in the jury instructions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/22/2009
• Published 04/22/2009

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before:  NEWMAN, SOTOMAYOR and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John J. Durham, Assistant United States Attorney (Emily Berger, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for appellee., David H. Weiss, New York, NY, for defendant-appellant.