U.S. v. MATOS

No. 1137, Docket 89-1566.

905 F.2d 30 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Rigoberto MATOS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan N. Halpern, Asst. U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y. (Helen Gredd, Asst. U.S. Atty., Otto G. Obermaier, U.S. Atty., for S.D.N.Y.), for appellee.

Barry E. Schulman, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Schulman & Laifer, Michael A. O'Connor, Doreen T. O'Connor, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Before PRATT and MINER, Circuit Judges, and MIRIAM GOLDMAN CEDARBAUM, District Judge for the Southern District of New York (sitting by designation).


GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Rigoberto Matos appeals from a judgment entered against him by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Louis L. Stanton, Judge, after a jury convicted him of multiple crimes relating to his involvement with narcotics trafficking in the Bronx, New York. Because Matos's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is raised for the first time on appeal, we remand to the district court to consider that...

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