Antranik Paroutian v. United States

This is the fourth appeal by Antranik Paroutian growing out of a two-count conviction for violating 21 U.S.C. § 174, on which he is now serving a twenty-year sentence. Appellant’s first conviction in 1960 was reversed by this court, United States v. Paroutian, 299 F.2d 486 (2d Cir. 1962). On retrial in 1962, appellant was found guilty by Jacob Mishler, J., sitting without a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York; that conviction was affirmed by this court, United States v. Paroutian, 319 F.2d 661 (2d Cir. 1963), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 981, 84 S.Ct. 494,…