United States v. Donald J. Picard

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Donald J. Pi-card, was indicted on two counts of selling heroin in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 4705(a). The jury returned a guilty verdict on both counts and the district court imposed two concurrent twenty-year sentences. Appellant’s major contentions are that he was denied due process and the effective assistance of counsel by certain limitations placed by the court on the scope of his discovery and that due process was violated by the court’s refusal to disclose the contents of a presentence report to him or to permit his counsel, who had been allowed to…