U.S. v. LOPEZ-LOPEZ

Nos. 00-2016, 00-2020, 00-2017, 00-2018.

282 F.3d 1 (2002)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Ruben LOPEZ-LOPEZ, Defendant, Appellant. United States, Appellee, v. Carlos Santana, Defendant, Appellant. United States, Appellee, v. Ramon Luciano-Del-Rosario, a/k/a Ruben Luciano-Del-Rosario, a/k/a Ruben Luciano-De-La-Rosa, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 19, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander Zeno for appellant Ruben Lopez-Lopez.

Maria H. Sandoval for appellant Carlos Santana.

Rafael F. Castro-Lang for appellant Ramon Luciano-del-Rosario.

Timothy S. Vásquez, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, and Jorge E. Vega-Pacheco and Thomas F. Klumper, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on brief for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, KRAVITCH, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Ruben Lopez-Lopez, Ramon Luciano-del-Rosario, and Carlos Santana were convicted of importation of, and possession with intent to distribute, approximately 700 kilograms of cocaine and for aiding and abetting these crimes. They were each sentenced to 235 months, or slightly less than 20 years, in prison.

Lopez-Lopez, Luciano, and Santana challenge their convictions on numerous grounds. Summing the arguments of all three, they claim the...

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