United States v. Gerson Nagelberg and Vivienne Nagelberg

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Gerson and Vivienne Nagelberg, husband and wife, were jointly tried and convicted on charges of conspiracy to import narcotics from Canada and on one substantive count of illegal purchase and receipt of heroin, and Vivienne was convicted alone on another substantive count, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York before Jack B. Weinstein, Judge, and a jury. We find no error and affirm the judgment.

Appellants’ convictions arose from a scheme to smuggle into the United States narcotics seized in Canada by Canadian enforcement…