Legal Opinion
United States v. Merritt
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 16, 2014No. 12-2111, 13-1622PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This is the second in a matched set of bookend cases. In the earlier case, we rejected the appeal of Larry Wilkins to set aside his conviction and sentence because of a notorious scandal that shook public confidence in a Massachusetts state testing laboratory. See Wilkins v. United States (Wilkins II), 754 F.3d 24, 2014 WL 2462554 (1st Cir.2014).
This time around, the appellant is Wilkins’s accomplice, Ronald Merritt. Although the appellant enjoys a more lenient standard of review, we conclude that the court below did not abuse its discretion in refusing to allow him to…
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