United States v. Rafael Rivera Diaz, United States of America v. Genaro Cautino Jordan, United States of America v. Roberto Olivero

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Appellants and others were charged with various crimes arising out of a scheme to import marihuana into Puerto Rico from Colombia and to distribute it in Puerto Rico. After a jury trial, the appellants were convicted. This appeal followed.

Early in the trial the court admitted into evidence recordings of two conversations that contained statements of a coconspirator linking each of the appellants to the importation scheme, and the most substantial question on this appeal is whether the court’s failure to give limiting instructions in advance on the use of those…