U.S. v. ARENA

Nos. 97-1081(L), 97-1082(C).

180 F.3d 380 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John ARENA and Michelle Wentworth, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 7, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Duncan, Assistant United States Attorney, Syracuse, New York (Thomas J. Maroney, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Syracuse, New York, on the brief), for Appellee.

Stasia Zoladz Vogel, Derby, New York, for Defendant-Appellant John Arena.

Carl F. Guy, Syracuse, New York, for Defendant-Appellant Michelle Wentworth.

Vincent P. McCarthy, New Milford, Connecticut, for Amicus Curiae American Center for Law and Justice, in support of Defendants-Appellants.

Before: KEARSE and STRAUB, Circuit Judges, and MURTHA, Chief District Judge.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Defendants John Arena and Michelle Wentworth appeal from judgments entered in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York after a jury trial convicting each on two counts of extortion and one count of conspiracy to commit extortion, in violation of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (the "Act"), on account of their attacks on medical facilities that provided reproductive health services. Arena and Wentworth were...

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