Legal Opinion
United States v. Santiago
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 19, 2009No. 07-1575, 07-1718, 07-1728, 07-2017PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises from the convictions of five co-defendants (only four seek review) on drug conspiracy charges and (as to one defendant) on associated firearms charges. We begin with a brief summary of the background and proceedings and return later to the evidence pertinent to sufficiency claims and to other trial and sentencing claims raised by the defendants.
The case began with a year-long investigation into a large-scale heroin distribution operation in or around Lowell, Massachusetts, starting in summer 2003 and ending with arrests in October 2004. The…
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