U.S. v. MALIK

No. 90-1549.

928 F.2d 17 (1991)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Mushtaq MALIK, a/k/a Mushtaq Ahmed, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Alan Curhan, Boston, Mass., by Appointment of the Court, for defendant, appellant.

Kevin O'Regan, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Wayne A. Budd, U.S. Atty., was on brief, Boston, Mass., for appellee.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.


BREYER, Chief Judge.

Mushtaq Malik appeals his convictions for conspiring to import, and importing, heroin. 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 963; 18 U.S.C. § 2. He makes several evidence-related claims, the most important of which concerns limitations the trial judge imposed on Malik's counsel's efforts to impeach a key witness through cross-examination about the witness's past activities involving the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Jordanian government...

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