Legal Opinion
United States v. Rivera Calderon
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 26, 2009No. 05-2650, 05-2651, 05-2652, 05-2839PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
After a thirty-four day trial, a jury convicted the appellants, Jesús Pomales-Pizarro (“Pomales”), Luis Daniel Rosario-Rivas (“Rosario”), José A. Rivera Calderón (“Calderón”), and Leonardo Rivera Torres (“Torres”), of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine base, heroin, and marijuana. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(A), 846. They were later sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
The appellants challenge both their convictions and sentences. They advance a spate of claims in the process, the most prominent one being a challenge to the…
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