United States v. Armando Vera-Porras

Armando Vera-Porras, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Forrest City, Arkansas, was found guilty after a jury trial of possessing a prohibited item in prison in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1791(a)(2) after officers recovered from a common area a cell phone that had been used to communicate with contacts found on Vera-Porras’s approved contact list. The district court 1 Sentenced Vera-Porras to 4 months imprisonment, to be served consecutively with his original 120-month sentence. Vera-Porras appeals, asserting that the district court erred in denying his motion for judgment of…