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U.S. v. GOMES

Nos. 97-2193, 97-2312, 97-2363 and 97-2432.

177 F.3d 76 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Joao M. GOMES, Defendant, Appellant. United States of America, Appellee, v. Juvenal Quadros, Defendant, Appellant. United States of America, Appellee, v. Julio Serpa, Defendant, Appellant. United States of America, Appellee, v. Joseph Silva, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 27, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. McBride with whom McBride & Associates was on brief for appellant Joao M. Gomes.

Richard J. Fallon, by appointment of the court, for appellant Juvenal Quadros.

Robert R. Andrew, by appointment of the court, for appellant Julio Serpa.

Stephen B. Hrones, by appointment of the court, with whom Hrones & Garrity was on brief for appellant Joseph Silva.

Elizabeth D. Collery, Department of Justice, with whom Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, Michael J. Pelgro and Robert L. Peabody, Assistant United States Attorneys, and Demetra Lambros, Department of Justice, were on consolidated brief for the United States.

Before Boudin, Circuit Judge, Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge, and Lynch, Circuit Judge.

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

On this appeal, four defendants—Joseph Silva, Julio Serpa, Juvenal Quadros, and Joao Gomes—seek review of their convictions for drug trafficking offenses or of their sentences. The case arises out of a large-scale investigation of drug dealing in and around Lowell, Massachusetts, conducted from the late 1980s until August 1996. Because the sufficiency of the evidence is not disputed, our description of the background and the defendants...

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