Legal Opinion
United States v. Ayala-Vazquez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 2, 2014No. 11-2347, 12-1540PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
Blood is often thicker than water. Brothers Angel Ayala-Vazquez (“Ayala”) and Luis Xadiel Cruz-Vazquez (“Cruz”) (collectively, “appellants”) appeal their convictions on multiple criminal charges related to their involvement in a wide-ranging drug trafficking organization based out of the Jose Celso Barbosa Public Housing Project (“Barbosa”) and the Sierra Linda Public Housing Project (“Sierra Linda”) in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Unlike dozens of others who entered guilty pleas, and some others who testified against them in the hope of lessening their own punishments, Ayala…
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