Legal Opinion
United States v. Pereira
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 3, 2017No. 15-1669PPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYK, Circuit Judge.
Nelson Pereira was convicted of conspiring to" possess cocaine with the intent to distribute, and aiding and abetting others to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2 and 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846. On appeal, Pereira contends that a new trial is warranted as a result of, inter alia, the prosecutor’s improper questioning that compelled him to comment on the veracity of two cooperating government witnesses, a problem that was exacerbated by improper judicial intervention in support of the prosecutor’s questions. For the. reasons that…
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