Federal Defenders of New York Second Circuit Blog

Flight Cancellation

United States v. Mundy, No. 06-1190-cr (2d Cir. August 21, 2008) (Kearse, Leval, Cabranes, CJJ). In this decision, the court all but eliminates the “flight as consciousness of guilt” jury instruction from Second Circuit jurisprudence. The facts here were somewhat unusual because it was the the defendant who sought the instruction with respect to a … Read more