United States v. Luis Anthony Rivera

EBEL, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the issue of whether defendant Luis Anthony Rivera’s convictions for various drug offenses should be reversed due to the cumulative effect of alleged deficiencies in the performance of government-appointed defense counsel, combined with the effect of the trial court’s refusal to grant a pretrial continuance. Because we find no error in the performance of defendant’s trial counsel nor in the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion for a continuance, we have no occasion to apply the cumulative-error doctrine in this case. Further, we have concluded that…