Legal Opinion
United States v. Cruz-Rivera
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 22, 2004No. 03-1012, 03-1013, 03-1014PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
On July 9, 1997, appellants Julio Santiago-Adams and José Ariel Cruz-Rivera, accompanied by two others, broke into the home of Carlos Flores-Rodríguez in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico; the robbery ended with Flores-Rodríguez dead, shot seven times. Both Santiago-Adams and Cruz-Rivera were carrying revolvers during the shooting. The intruders took from the home $2,000 in cash, which was one day’s proceeds from a Texaco gas station that Flores-Rodríguez owned. Because of the death of its owner, the gas station was forced to close.
Both defendants pled guilty to carrying a firearm…
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