Legal Opinion
United States v. Cartagena-Carrasquillo
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 1, 1995No. 94-1235, 94-1236 and 94-2127PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Cocaine trafficking in Puerto Rico resulted in the criminal convictions of the three appellants, who raise issues primarily as to the conduct of their trials. Two issues — the exclusion of expert evidence attempting to establish an insanity defense based on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder claimed to have resulted from military service in Vietnam and the prosecutor’s ill-considered reference to religion in his closing argument — merit close discussion. We affirm, rejecting the defendants’ challenges on these and other grounds.
Facts and Trial Proceedings
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