Legal Opinion
United States v. Baltas
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 2, 2001No. 99-1547PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CASELLAS, District Judge.
Following a jury trial, defendant-appellant John Baltas, Sr. 1 (hereinafter “Baltas”) was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. The district court sentenced him to 188 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release. Baltas now challenges his conviction and sentence alleging a potpourri of pretrial, trial, and sentencing issues. Because we conclude that none of Baltas’s arguments have merit, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
A federal grand jury indicted Baltas and twelve other…
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