Eastern District prosecutors have won reinstatement of a racketeering conspiracy verdict against a man who violated the law by selling huge quantities of contraband cigarettes to wholesalers from an Indian reservation.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit yesterday rejected defendant Rodney Morrison’s claim that the circuit’s decision to certify questions on the New York Tax Law on cigarettes to the state’s highest court indicated the law under which he was prosecuted was unconstitutionally vague.

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