U.S. v. MORLA-TRINIDAD

No. 96-1070.

100 F.3d 1 (1996)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Alberto MORLA-TRINIDAD, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 8, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen H. Mackenzie, Portland, ME, on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Jay P. McCloskey, United States Attorney, Bangor, ME, Margaret D. McGaughey, Assistant United States Attorney, and George T. Dilworth, Assistant United States Attorney, on brief, Bangor, ME, for appellee.

Before SELYA and STAHL, Circuit Judges, and TORRES, District Judge.


STAHL, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted defendant-appellant Alberto Morla-Trinidad of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Morla-Trinidad now seeks a new trial, claiming that the district court erred when it permitted the prosecutor to impeach his testimony with cross-examination and rebuttal evidence concerning a prior arrest of the defendant in which evidence was illegally obtained. We affirm.

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