United States v. Galante, 298 F.2d 72 (2d Cir. 1962)

Second Circuit opinion of January 8, 1962 on the criminal-contempt sentences imposed on Carmine Galante and Anthony Mirra for their conduct during a narcotics-conspiracy trial that ended in a mistrial. Galante's appeal was dismissed as moot.

Date: 1962-01-08
Kind: court-opinion
Source: CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the opinion
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: Opinion of a United States court. Works of the federal judiciary are in the public domain in the United States. The text was read on CourtListener.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, decided January 8, 1962. Carmine Galante and Anthony Mirra were defendants in a narcotics-conspiracy trial in the Southern District of New York that ended in a mistrial. The trial judge held them in criminal contempt for their conduct in the courtroom and sentenced them.

On Galante, the court’s disposition is short: “Galante’s appeal is dismissed as moot.”

The opinion concerns courtroom conduct and contempt. It says nothing about Galante’s place in any organization.

itemUnited States v. Aviles, 274 F.2d 179 (2d Cir. 1960)Second Circuit opinion of January 12, 1960 affirming most of the 1959 narcotics-conspiracy convictions of Vito Genovese, Vincent Gigante and others. It finds Genovese one of the conspiracy's "principal directing heads."