U.S. v. PIERCE

Docket Nos. 13-3687-cr, 13-3930-cr, 13-3936-cr.

785 F.3d 832 (2015)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Earl PIERCE, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Skeet Box, Melvin Colon, aka Sealed Defendant 2, aka Melly, Joshua Meregildo, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Killa, Defendants-Appellants, Nolbert Miranda, aka Sealed Defendant 4, aka PayDay, Lebithan Guzman, aka Sealed Defendant 5, aka Levi, Aubrey Pemberton, aka Sealed Defendant 6, aka Au, Felipe Blanding, aka Sealed Defendant 7, aka Hump, Javon Jones, aka Sealed Defendant 8, aka Capo, Dante Barber, aka Sealed Defendant 9, aka Tay, Nathaniel Fludd, aka Juntao, Orfelina Brito, aka Becky, Kevin Pinero, aka SB, Toshnelle Foster, aka Tosh, Bernard Folks, aka Akon, Hassen Brito, aka 12, Enrique Brito, aka 13, Walter Aponte, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 11, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nola B. Heller , Assistant United States Attorney ( Adam Fee , Santosh Aravind , Brian A. Jacobs , Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y., for Appellee.

Gwen M. Schoenfeld , Law Office of Gwen M. Schoenfeld, LLC, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Earl Pierce.

Mitchell Dinnerstein , New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Melvin Colon.

Ying Stafford , New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Joshua Meregildo.

Before: KEARSE, WESLEY, and CHIN, Circuit Judges.


Defendants-appellants Earl Pierce, Melvin Colon, and Joshua Meregildo appeal from judgments of conviction entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pauley, J.) on September 25, 2013, following a jury trial at which they were found guilty of, inter alia, conspiracy, racketeering...

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