Legal Opinion
United States v. Mejia-Valez
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided June 15, 1994No. 92 CR 963PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
KORMAN, District Judge.
Wilson Alejandro Mejia-Velez (“Velez”) was convicted after a jury trial of murdering, for money, Manuel de Dios Unanue (“de Dios”). See 18 U.S.C. § 1958 (1988 & Supp. II 1990). Prior to trial, the United States Attorney made a motion in limine seeking admission, inter alia, of (1) testimony of the defendant’s accomplices that they asked him to be the triggerman because he had told them he had committed similar crimes in Colombia and (2) tapes of “911” telephone calls made contemporaneously by two eyewitnesses to the homicide. Moreover, during the course of the…
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