U.S. v. ELIAS

Docket No. 01-1176.

285 F.3d 183 (2002)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Alex ELIAS, also known as Puff, Defendant-Appellant, Luis Otero, also known as Gardana, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colleen P. Cassidy, The Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Division, New York, NY, for Appellant.

Susan Corkery, Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, New York, NY (Alan Vinegrad, United States Attorney, and Peter A. Norling, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Appellee.

Before: JACOBS, SACK, KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.


JACOBS, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Alex Elias appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Ross, J.), convicting him, after a jury trial, of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (the "Hobbs Act"). Elias argues (1) that the trial evidence was insufficient to establish the jurisdictional element of the Hobbs Act conviction because the government failed to prove...

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