United States Second Circuit

Defendant's drug-related murder conviction is affirmed where there was sufficient evidence demonstrating that defendant induced his drug associates to participate in the victim's murder through promises to forgive drug-related debts and to engage in future drug transactions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/05/2009
• Published 11/05/2009

Judges

• REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judge:, Before:  LEVAL, RAGGI, and LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Neuman (David Stern, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., David Bitkower, Assistant United States Attorney (Emily Berger, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), on behalf of Benton J. Campbell, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee.