United States v. Santiago-Cordero

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, Defendant-Appellants Wendell Rivera-Ruperto, Daviel Salinas-Acevedo, and Miguel Santiago-Cordero challenge various aspects of their trial and sentencing. For Rivera-Ruperto, this was his second of two trials, which were presided over by different district judges. Having separately addressed Rivera-Ruperto’s challenges from the first trial in a decision simultaneously released herewith, we address in this opinion Rivera-Ruperto’s challenges, as well as those of Salinas-Acevedo and Santiago-Cordero, as to the second trial only.

During trial, all three…