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U.S. v. SANTANA-PÉREZ

Nos. 09-1101, 09-1150.

619 F.3d 117 (2010)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Luis Eligio SANTANA-PÉREZ, Defendant, Appellant. United States of America, Appellee, v. Aquiles Carpio-Pouret, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 8, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Héctor L. Ramos-Vega , Assistant Federal Public Defender, with whom Joseph C. Laws, Jr. , Federal Public Defender, was on brief, for appellant Luis Eligio Santana-Pérez.

Jesús M. Rivera-Delgado , for appellant Aquiles Carpio-Pouret.

William C. Brown , Attorney, Criminal Division, with whom Lanny A. Breuer , Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, and Rosa E. Rodríguez-Vélez , United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Defendants Luis Eligio Santana-Pérez and Aquiles Carpio-Pouret were found guilty of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2237(a)(1), which makes it a crime "for the master, operator, or person in charge of a vessel of the United States, or a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, to knowingly fail to obey an order by an authorized Federal law enforcement officer to heave to that vessel."1 They now appeal...

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