Legal Opinion
United States v. Trinidad-Acosta
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 5, 2014No. 13-1830, 13-2056PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
Defendants-Appellants Manuel Trinidad-Acosta (“Trinidad”) and Ed Cogswell (“Cogswell”) were convicted for their involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine base (or “crack cocaine”). They appeal their convictions and sentences, citing a number of alleged trial and sentencing errors. We have reviewed their claims carefully and do not find merit in any of them. Accordingly, we affirm.
I. Facts 1
Sometime around September 2010, two New York residents, in coordination with a local drug dealer, set up a business for distributing crack cocaine in Bangor, Maine. The…
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