U.S. v. PINTO

No. 585, Docket 87-1104, 87-1111, 87-1120, 87-1160, 87-1161 and 87-1166 to 87-1169.

850 F.2d 927 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Gilberto PINTO, Luis Moreno, Eduardo Vence, a/k/a "Bolo", Enrique Moreno, Sylvio Sinisterra, Hugo Enriquez, Frederico Gonzalez, Omar Ramirez, Tina Ramirez, Carlos Marin-Orozco, Cesar Castano, Defendants, Eduardo Vence, a/k/a "Bolo", Cesar Castano, Silvio Sinisterra, a/k/a "Tio", Gilberto Pinto, Enrique Moreno, a/k/a "Indigo", Luis Moreno, Carlos Marin-Orozco, Frederico Gonzalez, Hugo Enriquez, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 23, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Guay, New York City (Montclare & Guay, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellant Enrique Moreno.

Richard B. Lind, New York City, for defendant-appellant Vence.

David Seth Michaels, Spencertown, N.Y., for defendant-appellant Castano.

Telesforo Del Valle, Jr., New York City, for defendant-appellant Sinisterra.

Bert H. Nisonoff, Forest Hills, N.Y., for defendant-appellant Pinto.

A. Matthew Broughton, New York City, for defendant-appellant Luis Moreno.

Martin Goldberg, New York City, for defendant-appellant Marin-Orozco.

Chris P. Termini, Melville, N.Y., for defendant-appellant Gonzalez.

Paul Warburgh, New York City, for defendant-appellant Enriquez.

Patricia A. Pileggi, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Andrew J. Maloney, U.S. Atty., E.D.N.Y., Emily Berger, Jacques Semmelman, Asst. U.S. Attys., Brooklyn, N.Y., of counsel), for appellee.

Before OAKES, NEWMAN and MINER, Circuit Judges.


MINER, Circuit Judge:

Appellants challenge their convictions, entered after a ten-week jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Maletz, J.), on forty-eight counts of a forty-nine count indictment for crimes arising out of a conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine. On appeal, they raise issues common to all appellants, principally a claim of prosecutorial misconduct relating to a potential defense witness. Individual...

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