Legal Opinion
United States v. Daniel Paniagua-Ramos
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 30, 2001No. 99-1568, 00-1764PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Daniel Paniagua-Ramos (Paniagua) beseeches us to set aside his conviction for conspiracy to possess, with intent to distribute, multi-kilo-gram quantities of cocaine. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846. Paniagua rests his entreaty on claims of instructional error and jury taint. 1 ■ Finding neither claim persuasive, we affirm the judgment below.
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The details of the alleged conspiracy are of relatively little import to the issues on appeal, and it would be pleonastic to rehearse them here. It suffices to say that the government adduced evidence that…
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