United States v. Testa

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, District Judge.

On May 6, 1991 this Court issued its oral ruling granting the motion of defendant Camilo Testa (“Testa”) to strike from Count Six of the indictment in this case the references to Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School and 21 U.S.C. § 845a (“Section 845a”). 1 On June 5 the United States filed a motion for reconsideration of that ruling, and this brief memorandum opinion and order explains the reasons for this Court’s denial of that motion.

In its initial oral ruling, this Court analogized the task of reading the Section 845a language to the type…