Legal Opinion
United States v. López-Díaz
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 13, 2015No. Nos. 13-2113, 13-2118PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
These consolidated appeals present a rare example of a trial record that lacks sufficient evidence to support a guilty verdict returned by a jury. Carlos López-Díaz (“Carlos”), a dentist, operated a mobile dental clinic in Puerto Rico.1 His brother, José López-Díaz (“José”), is a medical doctor who billed Medicare for services to Carlos’s patients that José never provided. The jury convicted José of health-care fraud, conspiracy to commit *109health-care fraud, and aggravated identity-theft for using personal information gathered from Carlos’s patients. Based on the fact…
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