United States v. James Matthew Fields and William Lee Hamilton

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

James Matthew Fields and William Lee Hamilton appeal from their conviction in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, after a jury trial before Mark A. Costantino, J., on various counts all having to do with the interstate transportation of a stolen tractor trailer containing a shipment of beef. Both appellants were convicted of unlawfully receiving and possessing the trailer in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 659, and of conspiring to violate that statute. 18 U.S.C. § 371. Fields was also found guilty of transporting in interstate commerce…