Legal Opinion
United States v. Ruiz
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 12, 1997No. 95-1286, 95-1287PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL,. Circuit Judge.
In July 1993, a grand jury indicted defendants-appellants Santo Ruiz and Virgilio Ruiz, two brothers, for various crimes arising out of a December 1990 fire that destroyed their variety store in Roxbury, Massachusetts. After a ten day trial, a jury convicted the defendants of maliciously destroying by fire a building used in interstate commerce (18 U.S.C. § 844(i)), mail fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1341), conspiracy to commit the foregoing offenses (18 U.S.C. § 371),-and use of fire to commit a federal felony (18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(1)). - On appeal, the defendants challenge the…
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