SANTANA-MADERA v. U.S.

Docket No. 99-2125.

260 F.3d 133 (2001)

Leonardo R. SANTANA-MADERA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. August Term, 2000.

Decided: August 3, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremy G. Epstein, Shearman & Sterling, New York, NY, (Karen S. Hart and Olav A. Haazen, on the brief) for Petitioner-Appellant.

Elizabeth S. Riker, Assistant United States Attorney, for Daniel J. French, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York (John G. Duncan, on the brief), for Respondent-Appellee.

Before: McLAUGHLIN, POOLER, Circuit Judges, and MARTIN, District Judge.


McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:

In this case, a convicted drug dealer invokes two recent Supreme Court decisions, Richardson v. United States, 526 U.S. 813, 119 S.Ct. 1707, 143 L.Ed.2d 985 (1999), and Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000) — both of which were decided long after his convictions became final — in the hope of reversing his conviction...

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