Legal Opinion

United States v. Delima

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided March 26, 2018No. 17-1132PPublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Malik Delima pleaded guilty in 2016 to conspiring to commit access-device fraud after court-approved wiretaps, authorized during a separate investigation into a Vermont-based drug trafficking organization, exposed Delima's involvement in a scheme to produce and make purchases with fraudulent credit cards. Delima appeals the district court's denial of his motion to suppress the wiretap evidence. He also challenges his sentence on procedural and substantive reasonableness grounds. We affirm.

I. Background

A. Facts

In 2014, federal law enforcement agents in Vermont began an…

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