Legal Opinion
United States v. Sanabria
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 11, 2011No. 09-2298PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Felix Morales Sanabria (“Morales”), a commercial fisherman who goes by the nickname “El Chapo,” was convicted on multiple drug trafficking counts following a jury trial and sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment. The conviction related to three separate shipments of drugs, two of cocaine and a third of cocaine, heroin, and ecstasy, brought by boat from the Dominican Republic into Puerto Rico between November 2006 and April 2007. At trial, the government’s case against Morales rested almost exclusively on the testimony of three cooperating witnesses, two of whom identified…
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