U.S. v. SANTIAGO-COLÓN

No. 16-2509.

917 F.3d 43 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. David SANTIAGO-COLÓN, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 28, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Taddei , Attorney, Appellate Section Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Kenneth A. Blanco , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Trevor N. McFadden , Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Rosa E. Rodríguez-Vélez , United States Attorney, and Mariana E. Bauzá-Almonte , Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Section, were on brief, for appellant.

Andrew S. McCutcheon , Assistant Federal Public Defender, with whom Franco L. Pérez-Redondo , Research & Writing Specialist, Eric Alexander Vos , Federal Public Defender, and Vivianne M. Marrero-Torres , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Supervisor, Appeals Section, were on brief, for appellee.

Before Torruella, Thompson, and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.


The United States appeals the district court's order granting David Santiago-Colón's ("Santiago") motion to suppress identification evidence, giving preclusive effect to a Puerto Rico Court of Appeals's order suppressing this same evidence in a local proceeding for different offenses. According to the district court...

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