U.S. v. ANSALDI

No. 03-1259L, 03-1273(CON).

372 F.3d 118 (2004)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Scott ANSALDI, Rodney Dean Gates, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 16, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Tomao, Law Office of Peter J. Tomao, Esq., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Scott Ansaldi.

Bruce Harvey, Law Office of Bruce Harvey, Atlanta, GA, (Mark Yuracheck, L. David Wolfe, P.C., Atlanta, GA, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Rodney Dean Gates.

James Miskiewicz, Assistant United States Attorney, for Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, (Barbara D. Underwood, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), for Appellee.

Before: NEWMAN and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges, and UNDERHILL, District Judge.


UNDERHILL, District Judge.

This appeal concerns the application of the Controlled Substances Act ("CSA"), 21 U.S.C. §§ 801 et seq., to the chemical substance gamma butyrolactone ("GBL"). Under certain circumstances — most notably upon human ingestion — GBL converts into the chemical gamma hydroxybutyric acid ("GHB"), a Schedule I controlled substance that is commonly known as a date-rape drug. Scott Ansaldi and Rodney Gates ("Defendants...

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