Legal Opinion
United States v. Cruz-Rodriguez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 8, 2008No. 05-2492, 05-2493PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
An indictment charged twenty-six defendants with crimes arising from their involvement in a large drug distribution network that operated in a Puerto Rico housing project. These are appeals by two of the defendants — Carlos D. Cruz-Rodríguez (Cruz) and Felix Reyes-de León (Reyes).
After an eight-day trial a jury convicted Cruz and Reyes of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin within 1000 feet of both a school and a public housing facility. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 846, 860 (count one). The jury also convicted Cruz of two…
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