Legal Opinion
United States v. George Zappola and Robert Melli
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 30, 1982No. 910, 911, Dockets 81-1488, 81-1490PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:
This appeal turns on whether defendants, charged with attempted extortion and conspiracy to extort, may assert, as a defense, that their demands for compensation for business losses caused by their intended victims were made in the reasonable belief that the victims owed them such compensa tion. We hold that the district court did not err in refusing to charge that such reasonable belief is a defense. The defendants, George Zappola and Robert Melli, were convicted in the Southern District of New York, Haight, J., of attempted extortion in violation of the Hobbs Act, 18…
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