UNITED STATES v. MAGNANO

1011, 76-1058, 76-1062, 76-1064 and 76-1137.

543 F.2d 431 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Joseph MAGNANO, a/k/a "Joe the Grind", et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gretchen White Oberman, New York City, for defendants-appellants Magnano and Pallatta.

Gilbert Epstein, New York City (Stokamer & Epstein, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant Bollella.

H. Richard Uviller, New York City, for defendant-appellant De Lutro.

Robert Blossner, New York City, for defendant-appellant Soldano.

Jeffrey C. Hoffman, New York City (Steven Duke and John L. Pollok, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellant Lucas.

Dominic F. Amorosa, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., New York City, Nathaniel H. Akerman, Federico E. Virella, Jr., Howard S. Sussman, Lawrence B. Pedowitz and John C. Sabetta, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before HAYS and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges, and PALMIERI, District Judge.


HAYS, Circuit Judge:

Defendants-Appellants, asserting a host of alleged errors below, appeal from judgments of conviction for conspiring to traffic in narcotics and substantive violations of the narcotics laws. Only six of appellants' many arguments warrant discussion in this opinion. We have carefully considered each of the numerous claimed infirmities in their convictions and find none to be meritorious.

The facts adduced at trial evidenced a narcotics conspiracy...

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