United States v. Premnath Birbal John T. Wright

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Following a jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont (Sessions, /.), Premnath Birbal was convicted of a variety of drug offenses, as well as the destruction of evidence to prevent its seizure. Birbal appeals from his conviction and sentence on numerous grounds, all but one of which are addressed in a summary order issued simultaneously with this opinion. 1 Birbal’s remaining claim is that the district court erroneously failed to suppress a series of damaging admissions made by Birbal in the presence of a jailmate, Edward Gabaree. When…