United States v. Derrick Forrester

ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-appellant Derrick Forrester (“Forrester”) appeals from a judgment of conviction entered in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Cabranes, /.), following trial to a jury. Principally upon the testimony of three cooperating conspirators and two government agents, Forrester was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and export cocaine and distribution of cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 963, 846, and 841(a)(1). Although indicted in 1989, Forrester was not arrested and tried until 1993. He appeals the district court’s denial, on…