U.S. v. MATIAS

No. 11-2489.

707 F.3d 1 (2013)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Efrain MATIAS, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 18, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven A. Feldman , with whom Arza Feldman and Feldman and Feldman were on brief, for appellant.

Kelly Begg Lawrence , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Carmen M. Ortiz , United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, HOWARD and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

After a nine-day trial, a jury in the District of Massachusetts convicted Efraín Matías of attempted possession of at least five kilograms of cocaine with the intent to distribute.1 He was sentenced to twenty years in prison and ten years of supervised release. Matias presses two claims on appeal. First, he argues that the district court erroneously allowed the prosecution to introduce evidence that after...

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