U.S. v. HELMSLEY

No. 94, Docket 92-1202.

985 F.2d 1202 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Leona M. HELMSLEY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Bork, Washington, DC (Joel I. Klein, Richard G. Taranto, Klein, Farr, Smith & Taranto, Washington, DC; Sandor Frankel, Bender & Frankel, New York City; Shea & Gould, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Cathy Seibel, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Roger S. Hayes, Acting U.S. Atty., Jeffrey B. Sklaroff, Paul G. Gardephe, Asst. U.S. Attys., on the brief), for appellee.

Before: OAKES, NEWMAN, and PIERCE, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal primarily concerns the issue of whether a defendant's motion for a new trial based on alleged prosecutorial misconduct may succeed if the circumstances supporting the claim of misconduct were known to the defendant at trial. The issue arises on an appeal by Leona M. Helmsley from the April 7, 1992, order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Thomas P. Griesa...

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