United States v. Martinez-Mercado

KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.

A jury found Francisco Martínez-Mercado guilty of conspiracy to deprive a person of civil rights in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241 . The district court then sentenced him to eighty-seven months in prison. On appeal, Martínez-Mercado challenges the sufficiency of the evidence against him, the admission of evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), the exclusion of certain testimony, the denial of his new-trial motion based on newly discovered evidence, and the appropriateness of his sentence. For the following reasons, we affirm.

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Although we review the facts relevant…