Legal Opinion
United States v. Santos
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 2, 2009No. 08-31225PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRADO, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Tyrone Santos appeals his conviction for assault resulting in serious bodily injury under 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(6). Appellant and Andre Dorsey White, both incarcerated at the federal penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana, beat and stabbed Cashmere Cazeau, a fellow inmate. Appellant claims that the Government violated his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses by failing to call Cazeau as a witness at trial but admitting statements Ca-zeau made to Jeremy Dallas, a Bureau of Prisons nurse, about the amount of pain he was in. Appellant claims that the Government…
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3Cited by34 opinions
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