Legal Opinion
United States v. Trevor Dennis
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 1, 1988No. 715, Docket 87-1430PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
Trevor Dennis appeals his conviction for conspiracy to distribute cocaine entered in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Ellen Bree Burns, Judge. He argues that the trial judge improperly limited the cross-examination of one of the two principal government witnesses as to the substance of a pretrial conversation he had had with Dennis’s attorney. 1 Because we think the cross-examination should not have been so limited, we remand for further findings and for the possible grant of a new trial.
BACKGROUND
This case began when a South Carolina…
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