United States v. Reginald Max Goldsmith, Jr.

Reginald Max Goldsmith, a private investigator, was charged with intercepting private telephone conversations by wiretaps on two separate telephone lines in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 2511(1) (a) and 18 U.S.C.A. § 2. The jury found him guilty as to only one of the two counts. Defendant seeks reversal asserting that (1) the admission of certain testimony regarding other acts of similar uncharged misconduct, without proper instructions to the jury, denied him due process of law, (2) he received ineffective assistance from retained counsel and was thus denied his constitutional right to counsel,…