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U.S. v. RUIZ

Nos. 95-1286, 95-1287.

105 F.3d 1492 (1997)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Santo RUIZ, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Virgilio RUIZ, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 12, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Doherty, Andover, MA, by appointment of the Court, for appellant Santo Ruiz.

Virgilio Ruiz, on brief, pro se.

Kevin J. Cloherty, Assistant United States Attorney, Washington, DC, with whom John M. Griffin, Assistant United States Attorney, and Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, were on brief for appellee.

Before STAHL and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and WOODLOCK, U.S. District Judge.

STAHL, Circuit Judge.

In July 1993, a grand jury indicted defendants-appellants Santo Ruiz and Virgilio Ruiz, two brothers, for various crimes arising out of a December 1990 fire that destroyed their variety store in Roxbury, Massachusetts. After a ten day trial, a jury convicted the defendants of maliciously destroying by fire a building used in interstate commerce (18 U.S.C. § 844(i)), mail fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1341), conspiracy to commit the foregoing offenses...

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