Legal Opinion
United States v. Guzman Rivera
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 7, 1996No. 95-1234PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA Circuit Judge.
This appeal raises, inter alia, the question whether defendant-appellant Hector Guzman Rivera (Guzman) was twice put in jeopardy for the same offense, thus violating his Fifth Amendment rights. Discerning neither a constitutional flaw nor any other significant error, we affirm the judgment below.
I. BACKGROUND
The indictment in this ease arises out of an aborted drug smuggle that took the appellant by sea from Puerto Rico to the island of St. Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. 1 According to the appellant’s uncontradicted allegations, Victor Ayala, an agent of the United…
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