U.S. v. MORRISON

Docket Nos. 10-1926(L), 10-1951.

686 F.3d 94 (2012)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. Rodney MORRISON, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 16, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Miskiewicz , Assistant United States Attorney ( David C. James , John J. Durham , and Diane Leonardo Beckman , Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

Richard Ware Levitt ( Yvonne Shivers and Dean M. Solomon , on the brief), Levitt & Kaizer, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

Before: CALABRESI, CHIN, and CARNEY, Circuit Judges.


CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

After a jury convicted him of one count of conspiracy, in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Rodney Morrison filed several motions to vacate his convictions and dismiss the charges against him. The district court (Denis R. Hurley, J.<...

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