United States v. Joseph Gernie and Edward Ogull

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge.

The four principal questions on appeal are (1) whether there was sufficient •evidence to support Joseph Gernie’s conviction, (2) whether the court erred in denying defense motion to dismiss the indictment against Ogull because of entrapment, (3) whether the court erroneously restricted cross-examination of narcotic agent Wurms regarding the whereabouts of the government’s former special employee, Max Berner, who was not produced as a witness, and (4) whether it was error to call Benjamin Harell to testify in view of his claim of Fifth Amendment privilege.

Gernie and…