Legal Opinion
United States v. Kouri Perez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 10, 1999No. 98-1612, 98-1663PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Senior Circuit Judge.
Defense counsel appeal the sanction imposed upon them below for filing a vexatious discovery request. We dismiss for lack of appellate jurisdiction.
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BACKGROUND
Appellants’ clients were indicted in 1997 for theft of federal property and money laundering. Dealings between the prosecution and defense teams were acrimonious from the start. For present purposes, we focus upon the skirmish which began when Assistant United States Attorney (“AUSA”) Maria Dominguez informed the court that she had reason to believe that one defendant had paid the retainer for codefendants’…
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