UNITED STATES v. RUIZ

No. 801, Docket 73-1217.

477 F.2d 918 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Domingo RUIZ, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 30, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Jeffrey Weisenfeld, New York City, for defendant-appellant.

Arthur J. Viviani, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Whitney North Seymour, Jr., U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., John W. Nields, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.

Before CLARK, Associate Justice, WATERMAN and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appellant Ruiz was convicted below of conspiracy to distribute heroin. The sole issue in this appeal is whether the government introduced sufficient non-hearsay evidence of conspiracy to justify the admission into evidence of hearsay statements of Victor Torres, an alleged co-conspirator, implicating Ruiz.

On April 18, 1972, undercover police officer Minichiello met Torres for the first time and offered to buy heroin. Upon learning that Minichiello...

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