Legal Opinion
United States v. Ernest Malizia
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 27, 1975No. 1132, Docket 74-1389PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARTELS, District Judge:
After a three-day trial in the Southern District of New York before Constance Baker Motley, District Judge, and a jury, Ernest Malizia was convicted on February 15, 1974, of a one-count indictment which charged him with the sale of 995 grams of cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 173 and 174. He was sentenced to ten years imprisonment and a $20,000 fine.
On appeal Malizia raises several errors, the most important of which was the admission of testimony that informant Stanley Gerstenfeld stated that he would not testify because of fear of death, and that Malizia’s…
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