UNITED STATES v. SCHWARTZ

No. 85-3218.

790 F.2d 1059 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jeffrey H. SCHWARTZ, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided May 21, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald B. Lefcourt, P.C., Gerald B. Lefcourt (argued), New York City, for appellant.

U.S. Atty., W.D. Pennsylvania, J. Alan Johnson (argued), Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee.

Before GARTH and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges and FULLAM, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Convicted of distributing a small quantity of cocaine (about one-half ounce) and sentenced to a 10-year prison term, appellant Jeffrey Schwartz seeks reversal of his conviction. He asserts that he was deprived of his right to a fundamentally fair trial in three ways: (1) by the erroneous admission of evidence of other crimes, in violation of Federal Rule of Evidence 404; (2) by the trial judge's hostility and bias; and (3) by the trial judge's receipt...

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