Legal Opinion

United States v. John Maturo, Joseph Samuel Pontillo

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided December 16, 1992No. 422, Docket 92-1265PublishedCited by 40 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-appellant Joseph Samuel Pontillo appeals from a judgment entered after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Sterling Johnson, Jr., Judge), convicting him of conspiring to import and knowingly and intentionally importing in excess of one kilogram of heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 960(a)(1), 960(b)(1)(A), and 963 (1988). Pontillo was sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 312 months on each count, to be followed by five years of supervised release.

On appeal, Pontillo principally contends that his…

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