United States Second Circuit

Defendant's drug conspiracy conviction is affirmed where a conviction under 21 U.S.C. section 959(a) requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant actually knew or intended that a substance manufactured or distributed in violation of that section would be unlawfully imported into the U.S., and the government met this burden.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/07/2009
• Published 10/07/2009

Judges

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

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael A. Young (Joyce C. London, on the brief) Joyce C. London, P.C., New York, NY, for Jaime Enrique RomeroPadila.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marc P. Berger, Assistant United States Attorney (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Kevin R. Puvalowski, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for appellee.