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U.S. v. GARCÍA-TORRES

No. 01-1267.

280 F.3d 1 (2002)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jaime GARCÍA-TORRES, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 8, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph C. Laws, Jr., Federal Public Defender, with whom Patricia A. Garrity is on brief for appellant.

Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, and Jorge E. Vega-Pacheco, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Criminal Division, were on brief for the United States.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

BOUDIN, Chief Judge.

On February 18, 1997, the defendant-appellant, Jaime Garcia-Torres (a/k/a "Coque"), participated in the murder of one Eddie Vazquez in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He has since been convicted of the murder and sentenced in Commonwealth court to a long prison term. In this appeal, Jaime contests his federal conviction for drug conspiracy and related offenses based on the same murder.1 A brief precis of the facts, based on trial...

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