United States v. Finkielstain

OPINION AND ORDER

MUKASEY, District Judge.

Defendant Jacobo Finkielstain has moved to bar the government from presenting at trial the depositions of Luis Lecueder and Andreas Blauer, taken and videotaped pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 15. He claims that both witnesses testified based on documents that were not available to him, thereby denying him confrontation rights guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and discovery rights guaranteed by rule and statute, and violating evidentiary rules. For the reasons set forth below, the motions are granted in part and denied in part.

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