The Circuit continued to work through its cases, releasing two precedential opinions this week. Doka negatively, but not surprisingly, resolved an open but important issue, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Haywood, finding that the Sixth...
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Decisions of the Week Ended – April 3, 2020
The Second Circuit has extended filings and deadlines for three weeks, has conducted arguments by teleconference, and has remained busy issuing decisions. Two crime-of-violence-related decisions were particularly interesting: Nunez, which held that defendants cannot...
Ed Sapone’s DECISIONS OF THE WEEK -February 6, 2019
The Circuit did not release any precedential opinions in criminal cases this week, and issued only a few summary orders, none of them granting our clients any affirmative relief. Second Circuit On Monday, in United States v. Nunez Garcia (An The Circuit did not...
DECISIONS OF THE WEEK ENDED -JANUARY 24, 2020
As CA2’s prior reversals of former NYS Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (707 Fed.Appx. 733 (2017)), and House Speaker Sheldon Silver (864 F.3d 102 (2017), had previously shown, prosecuting politicians for bribery schemes, and instructing juries on the parameters of...
Ed Sapone’s DECISIONS OF THE WEEK-January 17, 2020
It was another uneventful week in the Circuit, with only a handful of mundane summary orders. There were a few interesting decisions in the state’s First, Second, and Third Department’s with two of them—Martinez and Arana—reminding us that, for guilty pleading...
Ed Sapone’s DECISIONS OF THE WEEK -January 10, 2020
Not much to report this week in the Circuit, with the exception of its decision in Anderson, which contains a thorough review of the rules relating to sentencing when the defendant has related and/or contemporaneous state court charges. A quiet week in the state...
Ed Sapone’s DECISIONS OF THE WEEK – December 27, 2019
It was an unexpectedly busy holiday week in the Second Circuit and the state appellate courts. In the Circuit, in addition to a very lengthy opinion in Campo Flores that must have kept Judge Kearse’s clerks busy for months, an interesting summary order in Swinton...
Ed Sapone’s DECISIONS OF THE WEEK -December 20, 2019
A very busy week in the Second Circuit, with an unusual mandamus grant in a criminal case to the government in In re: United States, and a very thorough and complex Fourth Amendment discussion relating to FISA warrants and electronic surveillance in Hasbajrami, which...
Ed Sapone’s DECISIONS OF THE WEEK -December 13th
Although there were four precedential decisions in the Circuit this week, they were relatively routine, with the exception of a reversal on a government appeal in Lett. There, EDNY Judge Margo K. Brodie dismissed an indictment apparently out of frustration by the...
Ed Sapone’s DECISIONS OF THE WEEK -NOVEMBER 29, 2019
In an otherwise quiet holiday-shortened week, the Circuit held, in an interesting summary order in Rosario, that the defendant’s guilty plea to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-distribution conspiracy in violation of § 924(c)(1)(A) was not factually...