Legal Opinion
United States v. Sánchez-Berríos
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 20, 2005No. Nos. 03-2333, 03-2334, 03-2335PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
These appeals evolve from a reverse sting operation designed to ferret out police corruption. The defendants, all law enforcement officers who greedily took the bait, were found guilty by a jury on a myriad of charges and thereafter sentenced to lengthy prison terms. In this venue, they variously challenge the district court’s stewardship of the trial, their convictions, and their sentences. Concluding, as we do, that their asseverational array lacks merit, we affirm the judgments below.
I. BACKGROUND
We recount the facts in the light most hospitable to the verdicts,…
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