Legal Opinion
United States v. Edwin P. Aguirre
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 27, 1990No. 1485, Docket 90-1133PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:
The United States appeals the grant of a writ of error coram nobis to Edwin Aguirre by the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Charles P. Sifton, Judge). After a hearing on January 12, 1990, the court held that Aguirre received “ineffective assistance of counsel” during his 1989 trial for cocaine importation and possession. The court vacated the conviction and granted a new trial.
Our study of the trial record, the papers submitted thereafter, and the hearing on the coram nobis petition, persuades us that the court’s findings of fact and conclusions of…
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