U.S. v. WILKERSON

Docket No. 03-1177.

361 F.3d 717 (2004)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Linwood WILKERSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 18, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Adam Abensohn, Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Susan Corkery and Leonard Lato, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel; Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney, on the brief), for Appellee.

Before: MINER, CALABRESI and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.


MINER, Circuit Judge.

In the early evening hours of September 8, 1997, Bilberto Lopez and his brother, Natividad, were the victims of a "hold up" while they were moving a stove into the basement of a multi-dwelling residential building that they owned in Brooklyn. Instead of complying with their assailant's demand for money, the Lopez brothers resisted. Consequently, both brothers were shot, and Bilberto died on the basement floor from a gunshot wound. Their assailant...

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