Legal Opinion
United States v. Soto-Beniquez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 20, 2003No. 01-1619, 01-1674, 00-1547, 01-1620, 00-1464, 00-1488, 00-1470, 00-1362, 00-1543PublishedCited by 156 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This massive drug conspiracy case from Puerto Rico involved a six-month trial and resulted in convictions of the eleven defendants who appeal, eight of whom received life sentences and three of whom received sentences of more than twenty years.
The government charged this case as involving one overarching conspiracy from January 1990 to March 1994 to distribute drugs at Bitumul (Israel Ward) in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico and to protect that distribution through multiple murders. Twenty-two defendants were indicted on charges of conspiracy with intent to distribute…
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