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U.S. v. BRESIL

No. 13-1066.

767 F.3d 124 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John Wenor BRESIL, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

September 24, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Víctor Ramos-Rodríguez , with whom Wilfredo Díaz-Narváez , was on brief, for appellant.

Kelly Leann Tiffany , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez , United States Attorney, Nelson Pérez-Sosa , Chief, Appellate Division, and Thomas F. Klumper , Assistant United States Attorney, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, HOWARD and KAYATTA, Circuit Judges.

KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.

John Wenor Bresil was convicted of illegally reentering the United States after he was found in the middle of the night by Coast Guard and Border Patrol officials in an open boat with seventeen others twenty-three nautical miles off the coast of Puerto Rico. On appeal he argues that he was wrongly prevented from showing at trial that he did not intend to enter the United States but instead was passing Puerto Rico on his way to the island of...

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