United States v. Defreitas, No. 11-425 (2d Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseDefendants were found guilty of conspiracy to carry out acts of terrorism against JFK International Airport. On appeal, defendant challenged the district court's various evidentiary rulings and the substantive reasonableness of their sentence. The court concluded that it saw no basis to fault the district court's empanelment of an anonymous jury in this case; the district court did not err in admitting a terrorism expert's testimony; the district court did not err in admitting certain photographs; the district court's decision not to declassify the remaining classified portions of the October 2006 Meeting Memo report and the identity of its author was not an abuse of discretion; the district court did not err in excluding certain tape recordings; and defendants' sentences were substantively reasonable. The court reviewed the remainder of defendants' arguments and found them to be without merit. The court also disposed of the appeal of a co-defendant and the motions relevant to that appeal. Accordingly, the court affirmed the district court's judgment and dismissed the co-defendant's appeal.
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