Enrique Moreno-Ortiz v. United States

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Enrique Moreno-Ortiz appeals from Chief Judge Platt’s denial of his motion to reconsider the court’s February 22, 1992 order denying his habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1988). Moreno-Ortiz argues that there is new evidence that he was improperly deprived of the exculpatory testimony of a potential defense witness through prosecutorial intimidation.

Moreno-Ortiz was convicted, in a multi-defendant trial, on forty-eight counts of conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine. The conviction was affirmed on appeal. United States v. Pinto, 850 F.2d 927 (2d…