The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has modified a recent decision to grant three robbery suspects a new trial because one of the defendants was apparently impaired when implicating himself and his co-defendants.
The revised decision in United States. v. Taylor, 11-2201, issued Tuesday, follows almost word-for-word a ruling the court handed down in December in the same case (NYLJ, Dec. 6, 2013) and does not change the result: The convictions of Curtis Taylor, Antonio Rosario and Samuel Vasquez remain vacated and the case is still remanded for a new trial. All that differs is a portion of the analysis.
