United States v. Ferretti

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HANNUM, District Judge.

The defendant was convicted on two (2) counts of distributing a controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841. Thereafter, an appeal was filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 635 F.2d 1089, in which it was contended, inter alia, that reversible error was committed when this Court denied the defendant his right to make the last argument to the jury as prescribed in Local Rule 13 of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Although whether the local rule was in effect at the time of the trial was then in question, the…