United States v. Tramunti

OPINION AND ORDER

KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, District Judge.

Following a nine week jury trial the defendant Carmine Tramunti and fourteen others were convicted of conspiracy to violate the federal narcotics laws. 21 U.S.C. §§ 173, 174, 812, 841(a)(1) & 841(b)(1). Prior to the trial the government had filed and served a notice under 21 U.S.C. § 849 which charged that the defendant Tramunti is a “dangerous special drug offender”. A judicial determination that Tramunti is, in fact, a “dangerous special drug offender” would subject him to a possible sentence of twenty-five years under 21 U. S.C. § 849.…