United States v. Riley

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

PETTINE, Chief Judge.

The defendants’ motions for a new trial pursuant to Federal Rule Crim.P. 33 are premised on the contention that they were denied such effective representation by counsel as to amount to a deprivation of Sixth Amendment Constitutional rights.

These defendants together with four others, namely Dennis Raimondi, Thaddeus Bigos, Nicholas Pari and Joseph DiCarlo, were tried jointly and convicted for theft and/or conspiracy to steal from an interstate shipment 18 U.S.C. §§ 659, 371. During the trial all were represented by private counsel — Raimondi by Alfred…