U.S. v. FARMER

Docket No. 07-2729-cr.

583 F.3d 131 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Laval FARMER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 8, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremy G. Epstein (Seth M. Kean, Grace Lee, Rebecca Boon, Of Counsel, on the brief), Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

Ilene Jaroslaw, Assistant United States Attorney (Peter A. Norling, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Benton J. Campbell, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee.

Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, WALKER and LEVAL, Circuit Judges.


DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:

Laval Farmer was convicted by a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Platt, J.) of murdering Jose Angel White and attempting to murder Jacquel Patterson "for the purpose of ... maintaining or increasing [Farmer's] position" within the Bloods street gang, 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a), as well as conspiring to assault with a dangerous weapon and discharging firearms during the murder and the attempted...

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