Post by coots on Jan 21, 2012 1:43:31 GMT -5
NY POST
Mob Cops Eye ‘Gotti’ Appeal
Two former NYPD detectives who moonlighted as hit men for the mob are waging a fight to appeal convictions that condemned them to life in prison — and late wiseguy John Gotti Sr. is playing a central role.
Attorneys for ex-cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are arguing that former Luchese crime-family underboss Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso who became an FBI informant should have testified for the defense.
Eppolito’s current attorney claims that high-profile lawyer Bruce Cutler, who served as trial counsel, chose not to call Casso to the stand because he feared “a truckload of evidence” damaging to his prior client — John Gotti Sr. — would have been aired in court.
The lawyers for Eppolito and Caracappa claim Casso could have shown that their clients did not get fair trials because of “conflicts of interest.’’
Eppolito’s lawyer, Joseph Bondy, claimed in court papers that Cutler served essentially as “house counsel” for Gotti and his Gambino crime family.
At a hearing yesterday in Brooklyn federal court, the disgraced former NYPD cops won a small victory when Judge Jack Weinstein ruled that prosecutors should hand over to defense attorneys internal FBI reports on Casso.
Both former officers participated in the hearing via trans-continental electronic hookups, with Caracappa on the line from a federal prison in Victorville, Calif., and Eppolito calling in from a federal facility in Tucson, Ariz.
3/10/05
imtool: Louie Eggandptatoes takes getting his a little too far. murder is a far cry from armo sausage on pita with the works. i was never cleared of that. but they clear this guy on murder, just not fair.
This is what tool was responding to..."NBC News announced this morning that two former NYPD Detectives were arrested in Las Vegas and charged with assisting the mob with as many as eight murders."
Mob Cops Eye ‘Gotti’ Appeal
Two former NYPD detectives who moonlighted as hit men for the mob are waging a fight to appeal convictions that condemned them to life in prison — and late wiseguy John Gotti Sr. is playing a central role.
Attorneys for ex-cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are arguing that former Luchese crime-family underboss Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso who became an FBI informant should have testified for the defense.
Eppolito’s current attorney claims that high-profile lawyer Bruce Cutler, who served as trial counsel, chose not to call Casso to the stand because he feared “a truckload of evidence” damaging to his prior client — John Gotti Sr. — would have been aired in court.
The lawyers for Eppolito and Caracappa claim Casso could have shown that their clients did not get fair trials because of “conflicts of interest.’’
Eppolito’s lawyer, Joseph Bondy, claimed in court papers that Cutler served essentially as “house counsel” for Gotti and his Gambino crime family.
At a hearing yesterday in Brooklyn federal court, the disgraced former NYPD cops won a small victory when Judge Jack Weinstein ruled that prosecutors should hand over to defense attorneys internal FBI reports on Casso.
Both former officers participated in the hearing via trans-continental electronic hookups, with Caracappa on the line from a federal prison in Victorville, Calif., and Eppolito calling in from a federal facility in Tucson, Ariz.
3/10/05
imtool: Louie Eggandptatoes takes getting his a little too far. murder is a far cry from armo sausage on pita with the works. i was never cleared of that. but they clear this guy on murder, just not fair.
This is what tool was responding to..."NBC News announced this morning that two former NYPD Detectives were arrested in Las Vegas and charged with assisting the mob with as many as eight murders."
