United States Second Circuit

In a drug and firearm prosecution, the District Court's order suppressing evidence obtained through a wiretap is reversed, where the government-s affidavit in support of its application for the wiretap set forth facts minimally adequate to support the finding that a wiretap was necessary to the government-s investigation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/03/2009
• Decided 08/31/2009
• Published 08/31/2009

Judges

• McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge., Before: McLAUGHLIN, CALABRESI, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William J. Harrington, Assistant United States Attorney, for Lev L. Dassin, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (John T. Zach, Jonathan S. Kolodner, on the brief), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Darrell B. Fields, Federal Defenders of New York, for Defendant-Appellee.