MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER
SPATT, District Judge.
The petitioner Edwin Maldonado ("Maldonado" or the "petitioner") has applied for a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") from an Order of this Court dated February 15, 1997 denying his Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.
I. BACKGROUND
In December, 1990, following a seventeen week jury trial, Maldonado was found guilty of violating the criminal RICO...
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