United States v. Basciano, No. 1:05-cr-00060 (E.D.N.Y.), docket entries for the penalty verdict, judgment and mandate

On June 1, 2011 the penalty-phase jury in Vincent Basciano's capital case returned "A SENTENCE OF LIFEIMPRISONMENT WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RELEASE" (as the docket runs the words together). Judgment followed in July 2011; the Second Circuit's mandate of April 22, 2016 affirms it.

Date: 2011-06-01/2016-04-22
Kind: case-file
Source: CourtListener RECAP archive, docket of the U.S. District Court, E.D.N.Y.
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: 1:05-cr-00060
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Docket entries in United States v. Basciano, No. 1:05-cr-00060, before Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis. The minute entry for June 1, 2011 records the penalty phase: closing arguments, the charge, and “JURY DELIBERATIONS BEGIN; JURY RENDERS A SENTENCE OF LIFEIMPRISONMENT WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RELEASE; SEE VERDICT SHEET.” The government had sought the death penalty; the jury did not return it.

Sentencing was held on July 20, 2011. The judgment imposes 120 months on Count One of the S-12 superseding indictment, “to run concurrently with his undischarged term of Life imprisonment,” and life imprisonment on Count Two, “to run consecutively to his undischarged term of life imprisonment.” The undischarged term is the life sentence in his earlier case. On April 22, 2016 the clerk entered the Second Circuit’s mandate: “It is Ordered that the Judgment entered on July 21, 2011, is AFFIRMED.” The appeals court’s opinion or summary order was not opened for this archive.

itemUnited States v. Basciano, No. 1:05-cr-00060 (E.D.N.Y.), docket entries for the 2011 trialMinute entries for Vincent Basciano's 2011 capital trial. Joseph Massino was called as a witness on five days in April 2011, and on May 16, 2011 the "Jury renders a guilty verdict on all three counts."itemUnited States v. Basciano, 763 F. Supp. 2d 303 (E.D.N.Y. 2011)Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis rules on Vincent Basciano's pretrial motions in the capital case over the killing of Randolph Pizzolo. The opinion quotes the court's earlier finding that "Joseph Massino, the then-head of the Bonanno crime family, agreed to become a government informant and taped conversations in prison that he had with Basciano."