U.S. v. CRUZ-RIVERA

Nos. 03-1012, 03-1013, 03-1014.

357 F.3d 10 (2004)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. José Ariel CRUZ-RIVERA, Defendant, Appellant. United States of America, Appellee, v. Julio Santiago-Adams, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 22, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rafael F. Castro Lang, for appellant Cruz-Rivera.

David Ramos-Pagan, for appellant Santiago-Adams.

Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom H.S. Garcia, United States Attorney, and Sonia I. Torres-Pabón, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Criminal Division, were on brief, for appellee.

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


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

On July 9, 1997, appellants Julio Santiago-Adams and José Ariel Cruz-Rivera, accompanied by two others, broke into the home of Carlos Flores-Rodríguez in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico; the robbery ended with Flores-Rodríguez dead, shot seven times. Both Santiago-Adams and Cruz-Rivera were carrying revolvers during the shooting. The intruders took from the home $2,000 in cash, which was one day's proceeds from a Texaco gas station that...

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