United States Second Circuit

Defendant's drug distribution convictions are affirmed where the district court abused its discretion in admitting as similar acts evidence two of his prior narcotics convictions, but the error was harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/19/2009
• Published 10/19/2009

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, McLAUGHLIN and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph A. Vita, Law Office of Joseph A. Vita, Esq., Port Chester, N.Y., for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nola B. Heller, Assistant United States Attorney (Jonathan S. Kolodner, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y., for Appellee.