Legal Opinion
United States v. Pedro Rivera
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 2, 1997No. 96-2188PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION EN BANC
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
Appellant Pedro Rivera appeals his conviction under 46 U.S.C. § 10908 for knowingly sending a vessel to sea in an unseaworthy condition likely to endanger the life of an individual. He alleges that his prosecution was invalid, that the evidence was insufficient, and various trial errors. After a divided panel of this court affirmed the conviction, we ordered en banc hearing on the statutory and sufficiency issues. We now find the prosecution to be proper, but conclude that the evidence adduced was insufficient to establish that Rivera knew that the…
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