PORCELLI v. U.S.

Docket No. 04-2000-PR.

404 F.3d 157 (2005)

Oscar PORCELLI, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 12, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vivian Shevitz, South Salem, N.Y. (Jane Simkin Smith, Millbrook, N.Y. on the brief) Petitioner-Appellant.

Emily E. Berger, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York, Susan Corkery, Assistant United States Attorney on the brief) for Appellee.

Before: WINTER and POOLER, Circuit Judges; and BRIEANT, District Judge.


BRIEANT, District Judge.

Oscar Porcelli, a federal felon, appeals from an Order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York denying his petition for a writ of error coram nobis, collaterally attacking Porcelli's 1987 federal felony conviction.

We review de novo the standards that a District Court applies in considering the writ of error coram nobis and review for abuse of discretion a District Court's final...

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