Legal Opinion
United States v. Kifwa
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 22, 2017No. 16-1766PPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
It takes a certain degree of effrontery for an accused person held in pretrial detention to continue to conduct his criminal enterprise over a prison telephone, knowing that prisoner calls are customarily recorded. But defendant-appellant Mukon-kole Huge Kifwa did just that, relying on the masking effect of his use of a language (Lingala) seldom heard in the United States. That reliance was misplaced, and even though the appellant moved unsuccessfully to exclude the government’s introduction of the translations of four of the recorded conversations at trial, he declined…
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