This appeal stems from the convictions at trial in 2006 of Yassin Muhiddin Aref, an imam at a mosque in Albany, NY, and Mohammed Mosharref Hossain, a co-founder of that mosque, on money laundering and promoting terrorism charges. Those charges arose out of a FBI sting operation involving a confidential ...

This is another ruling that continues the almost impenetrable shroud of secrecy imposed by the Government and routinely affirmed by the courts relating to nearly anything connected with either the NSA’s Terrorist Surveillance Program (“TSP”) or the Government’s operations at Guantanamo Bay.

Here, Judge Cote granted the Government’s summary judgment ...

Conviction for killing a person in connection with an attempt to steal money from ATM machines is affirmed over defendant's claims that: 1) being charged with an offense punishable by death entitled him to representation by two attorneys, and the district court erred in dismissing one of his two appointed ...

Conviction, sentence, and restitution ordered against defendant for conspiracy, investment advisor fraud, mail and wire fraud, and obstruction of justice, are affirmed over defendant's claims that: 1) application of newly-enacted 18 U.S.C. § 3771(a) was unconstitutional as applied to him under the Ex Post Facto and Due Process clauses; 2) ...

In a prosecution of multiple defendants for various drug-related offenses, their convictions are affirmed where: 1) defendants were not entitled to a jury charge on self-defense; 2) there was no error in a jury charge regarding the nexus between the drug conspiracy and the murder of a rival gang member; ...

For the first time, a Federal court has looked into the procedures employed by the Pentagon’s Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) to determine whether a person held at Guantanamo Bay should be designated as an “enemy combatant.” And, in the latest of a series of recent eye-opening rebukes to the ...