U.S. v. LEONER-AGUIRRE

No. 18-1333.

939 F.3d 310 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Rafael LEONER-AGUIRRE, a/k/a Tremendo, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

September 20, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia Pamela Heit , New York, NY, for appellant.

Kunal Pasricha , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Andrew E. Lelling , United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before Lynch, Selya, and Barron, Circuit Judges.


After a two-week trial, a jury in 2017 convicted Rafael Leoner-Aguirre ("Aguirre"), a leader of the MS-13 gang in Massachusetts, of RICO conspiracy, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d). The predicate acts charged involved murder, robbery, and drug dealing. The district court sentenced Aguirre to 228 months' imprisonment and three years...

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