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U.S. v. VIGOA

Crim. A. No. 86-249.

656 F.Supp. 1499 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Manuel VIGOA, Wilfredo Torres, and Roy Montesinos, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

March 27, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Fishbein, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., for U.S.

Linda George, Testorini, LeRoy & George, Newark, N.J., for defendant, Roy Montesinos.

Lawrence Lustberg, U.S. Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Newark, N.J., for defendant, Wilfredo Torres.

Alan Silber, New York City, for defendant, Manuel Vigoa.

AMENDED OPINION

SAROKIN, District Judge.

This matter is before the court on the government's application to admit the grand jury testimony of Orestes Rodriguez, a recently deceased government witness, into evidence at trial. For the reasons set forth below, the court concludes that admission of the grand jury testimony would violate both the Federal Rules of Evidence and the Confrontation Clause.1

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