Legal Opinion
United States v. Wilson Torres
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 8, 1974No. 1238, Docket 74-1698PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is from a heroin-distribution conspiracy conviction, 21 U.S.C. §§ 812, 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(A) and 846 1 Appellant principally claims that the evidence was insufficient because his involvement was demonstrated only as to a “single act,” and that his trial was unfair in that the Government was improperly permitted to impeach a witness with his own prior inconsistent statement and by using an assistant United States attorney as a witness, an error which was compounded in the prosecutor’s summation. While we disagree on the sufficiency question, we agree that…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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3Cited by78 opinions
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