U.S. v. Riggi, No. 06-1280-cr (2nd Cir.) (541 F.3d 94) (September 4, 2008) (Judge Dennis G. Jacobs)
Conviction on charges arising out of involvement in an organized crime family, including racketeering, murder and related conspiracies, is vacated and remanded where admission of eight plea allocutions of non-testifying co-conspirators amounted to plain error under the intervening authority of Crawford v. Washington.
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