Legal Opinion
United States v. Edward Ramon Mena
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 9, 1991No. 88-2071PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Asserting that guilt should not have attached for a hijack that did not succeed or for the empty menace of threatening words backed only by an ersatz bomb that could not explode, defendant-appellant Edward Ramon Mena (Mena) invites us to reverse his convictions for aircraft piracy and related charges. We decline the invitation.
I. BACKGROUND
We depict the evidence presented at trial in the light most favorable to the prosecution, drawing all reasonable infer- enees in its favor. See United States v. Devin, 918 F.2d 280, 283 (1st Cir.1990); United States v. Tierney, 760 F.2d…
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