Legal Opinion
United States v. Rigoberto Matos
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 1, 1990No. 1137, Docket 89-1566PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:
Rigoberto Matos appeals from a judgment entered against him by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Louis L. Stanton, Judge, after a jury convicted him of multiple crimes relating to his involvement with narcotics trafficking in the Bronx, New York. Because Matos’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is raised for the first time on appeal, we remand to the district court to consider that claim in the first instance. The rest of Matos’s contentions lack merit.
BACKGROUND
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