Opinion ID: 396196
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Heading: Interview of Agent Livertucci

Text: 27 Judge Carter, in the presence of the prosecutor but not of the defense counsel, questioned IRS Agent Livertucci, who had interviewed Earl Wilt, to determine whether the IRS possessed any material subject to production under the Jencks Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3500 (1976). Appellants claim that this in camera interview violated their right to confront witnesses against them. 28 However, Agent Livertucci was never called as a witness against Coven and O'Connor and therefore no Sixth Amendment confrontation rights were implicated. United States ex rel. Meadows v. New York, 426 F.2d 1176, 1184 (2d Cir. 1970), cert. denied, 401 U.S. 941, 91 S.Ct. 944, 28 L.Ed.2d 222 (1971). Furthermore, an in camera interview is expressly authorized by 18 U.S.C. § 3500(c), and neither Coven nor O'Connor objected when the court announced its intention to conduct such an interview. Also, we have examined the materials turned over to the court by Agent Livertucci, and they contain absolutely nothing that the government was required to produce under either the Jencks Act or under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963). The trial court did not err in its handling of Agent Livertucci.