U.S. v. MELGAR-CABRERA

No. 16-2018.

892 F.3d 1053 (2018)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Francisco MELGAR-CABRERA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 8, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott M. Davidson , The Appellate Law Office of Scott M. Davidson, Ph.D., Esq., Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Defendant-Appellant.

C. Paige Messec , Assistant United States Attorney ( Damon P. Martinez , United States Attorney, with her on the brief), Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before BRISCOE, SEYMOUR, and McHUGH, Circuit Judges.


This case arises out of two restaurant robberies in 2009 during one of which Francisco Melgar-Cabrera's cohorts shot and killed a waitress. Mr. Melgar-Cabrera was charged with numerous crimes but was not immediately tried because he fled to El Salvador. He was extradited in 2013 and subsequently convicted and sentenced to...

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