Legal Opinion
United States v. Gracia
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 15, 2008No. 07-40245PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-Appellant Apolinar Gracia, Jr. traveled across the border bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville as a passenger in a car driven by an older female Mend. The car contained approximately fifty kilograms of cocaine hidden in a false floor. A jury convicted Gracia on four related drug counts. Convinced that, during rebuttal closing argument, the government improperly bolstered its key witnesses, the agents who heard Gra-cia’s unrecorded confession, and that this bolstering constituted reversible plain error, which seriously affected the fairness, integrity, and…
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