Legal Opinion
United States v. Elvis Leonidas Ruiz-Batista
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 7, 1992No. 91-1322PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.
Defendant Ruiz-Batista appeals from his conviction for possession of a controlled substance—cocaine—with intent to distribute, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C), and from his sentence. The alleged trial errors were admissions of instances of possession on prior occasions. Throughout the trial there were problems relating to whether defendant was going to claim entrapment. The court, ultimately ruling that defendant had irrevocably committed himself thereto, finally admitted the most questionable of this evidence. While we understand the court’s…
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