Legal Opinion
United States v. Flores-De-Jesus
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 18, 2009No. 06-2670, 06-2671, 06-2672PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to assess the propriety of the government’s use of a law enforcement officer as the first witness in a multi-defendant drug prosecution to provide an “overview” of the prosecution’s case. While we have condemned aspects of this practice before, most notably in United States v. Casas, 356 F.3d 104, 117 (1st Cir.2004), we must regrettably revisit the overview witness issue in some detail because of the abuse of that practice in this case and others.
Appellants Saúl Flores-de-Jesús, Rafael Sabino-Morales, and Daniel FelicianoRodriguez were three of…
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