United States v. Jose Tormos-Vega, United States of America v. Juan Luis Boscio

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

At argument before us in April of 1990, the defendants/appellants presented numerous challenges to their district court convictions under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951. On September 5, 1990, without considering any of the other claims of error, we issued an order granting new trials because the jury had been empaneled by a magistrate, not an Article III judge, 912 F.2d 3 (1st Cir.1990). We stayed our mandate, however, because of the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in two cases raising relevant refinements of the magistrate empanelment issue. See United…