Legal Opinion
United States v. Carlos Simon
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 1, 1992No. 90-5619PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, we affirm the appellant’s conviction because even if the prosecutor made improper argument to the jury, the error was harmless.
I. FACTS
In early January, 1985, Richard Caride, a policeman for the city of Hialeah, Florida, told his fellow police officer and good friend Carlos Simon, the appellant in this case, that he had engaged in a home invasion robbery with Luis Perez. According to Caride, during the robbery, he and Perez had posed as police officers and obtained substantial amounts of money and drugs from a drug dealer named Miriam Baydes. About a…
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