WRIGHT v. UNITED STATES

No. 307, Docket 83-2150.

732 F.2d 1048 (1984)

Samuel D. WRIGHT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 24, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ramsey Clark, Lawrence W. Schilling, New York City, David S. Golub, Silver, Golub & Sandak, Stamford, Conn., for petitioner-appellant.

L. Kevin Sheridan, Asst. U.S. Atty., E.D.N.Y., Raymond J. Dearie, U.S. Atty., E.D.N.Y., Brooklyn, N.Y., for respondent-appellee.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, and FRIENDLY and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

More than five years ago we affirmed the conviction of appellant Samuel D. Wright, onetime chairman of New York City Community School Board 23 and later a New York City councilman, in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 559 F.Supp. 1139, for having solicited and received "under color of official right" a payment of $5,000 from Behavioral Research Laboratories, Inc. (BRL), a seller...

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