U.S. v. CARTAGENA-CARRASQUILLO

Nos. 94-1235, 94-1236 and 94-2127.

70 F.3d 706 (1995)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Luis CARTAGENA-CARRASQUILLO, Defendant, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Carlos LUGO-LOPEZ, Defendant, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jose L. FIGUEROA-GARCIA, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 1, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roberto Roldán Burgos, Rio Piedras, PR, by appointment of the court, for appellant Cartagena-Carrasquillo.

Miriam Ramos Grateroles, Bayamon, PR, by appointment of the court, for appellant Lugo-López.

Theodore L. Craft, Melrose, MA, by appointment of the court, for appellant Figueroa-García.

Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, Washington, DC, was on brief, for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, LYNCH, Circuit Judge, and WATSON, Senior Judge.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Cocaine trafficking in Puerto Rico resulted in the criminal convictions of the three appellants, who raise issues primarily as to the conduct of their trials. Two issues — the exclusion of expert evidence attempting to establish an insanity defense based on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder claimed to have resulted from military service in Vietnam and the prosecutor's ill-considered reference to religion in his closing argument — merit...

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