U.S. v. BLACK

Docket Nos. 18-496-cr(L), 18-548-cr(XAP), 18-574-cr(XAP) August Term, 2018.

918 F.3d 243 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. Rodshaun BLACK, aka Rashaun Black, aka Shaun, Defendant-Appellee, Daniel Rodriguez, aka Danny, Ernest Green, aka Ern, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 18, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MICHAEL P. FELICETTA , Assistant United States Attorney ( Tiffany H. Lee , Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for James P. Kennedy, Jr., United States Attorney for the Western District of New York, Rochester, NY, for Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

DONALD M. THOMPSON , Easton Thompson Kasperek Shiffrin, LLP, Rochester, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Rodshaun Black.

BARRY N. COVERT , Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP ( Erin E. McCampbell , on the brief), Buffalo, NY, for Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Daniel Rodriguez.

JESSE C. PYLE , Harrington & Mahoney ( James P. Harrington , on the brief), Buffalo, NY, for Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Ernest Green.

Judge Cote concurs in the judgment in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.


The case before us treads on familiar ground—the fundamental protections for criminal defendants that are enshrined in the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution. Defendants-Appellees Rodshaun Black, Daniel Rodriguez, and Ernest Green (collectively, "Defendants-Appellees") were indicted on March 6, 2012, and charged with...

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