United States v. Domingo Torres Rivera

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge;

Appellant Domingo Torres Rivera appeals on the sole ground of prejudicial joinder, from sentence on judgments of conviction on six counts of narcotics violation on trial to the jury in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, T. Emmet Clarie, District Judge. We find no error in the exercise of the court’s discretion by denial of motions for severance and affirm the judgments.

Rivera was indicted in three indictments. In one, Cr. #11241 he was charged in two counts with violating 21 U.S.C. § 174 1 and 26 U.S.C. § 4705(a) 2 by a sale, etc.…