Legal Opinion
United States v. Meises
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 13, 2011No. 09-2235, 09-2239PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Appellants Juan Mieses 1 and Jose Reyes-Guerrero were arrested in a reverse sting operation after they drove to a sham drug deal, with a third co-defendant, in a vehicle containing $100,000 in cash. 2 A jury found both appellants guilty of a single drug conspiracy count. On appeal, the pair claim that their convictions must be vacated because of three significant errors at trial: (1) the government’s use of improper overview testimony from the lead law enforcement agent in the case, (2) the indirect admission of the third co-defendant’s out-of-court statement implicating…
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