United States v. Humberto Rivera

CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:

Humberto Rivera was convicted of nine counts of transporting illegal aliens in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(B). 1 The appellant claims error by the trial court in the admission of the deposition testimony of certain alien witnesses, who had been deported prior to trial; in failing to charge the jury that there must be proof of a direct and substantial relationship between the defendant’s conduct and the alien’s violation of the law; and in excluding evidence and forbidding argument relating to the eligibility of the aliens for amnesty. Finding no merit in these…