Legal Opinion
United States v. Morla-Trinidad
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 8, 1996No. 96-1070PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted defendant-appellant Alberto Morla-Trinidad of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Morla-Trinidad now seeks a new trial, claiming that the district, court erred when it permitted the prosecutor, to impeach his testimony with cross-examination and rebuttal evidence concerning a prior arrest of the defendant in which evidence was illegally obtained. We affirm.
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Background
On September 4, 1994, police in Lewiston, Maine, stopped a vehicle in which Morla-Trinidad was a passenger and Melvin “Bub-ba” Lagasse (“Bubba…
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