Legal Opinion
United States v. Eloy Joseph Romero and Ralph John Visconti
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 18, 1957No. 24687_1PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUMBARD, Circuit Judge.
Appellants seek reversal of a conviction for the sale of narcotics and for conspiracy to violate the federal narcotic laws. They were tried before a jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and each was sentenced by Judge Levet to 8 years imprisonment on Count 1 and 5 years on Count 4, to be served concurrently. Count 3, which the Court dismissed at the end of the government’s case, by charging that the defendants, being over 18 years of age, had sold heroin to Matthew Ottomano, then under 18, subjected the defendants to a possible…
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