UNITED STATES v. GARCÍA-SIERRA

No. 16-2503.

994 F.3d 17 (2021)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Adolfo León GARCÍA-SIERRA, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

April 7, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda A. Backiel for Appellant.

Kaitlin E. Paulson , Attorney, Appellate Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Redwood Shores, CA, with whom John P. Cronan , Acting Assistant Attorney General, New York, New York County, NY, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez , United States Attorney, and Mariana E. Bauza Almonte , Assistant United States Attorney, New York, New York County, NY, were on brief, for Appellee.

Before Howard, Chief Judge, Kayatta, Circuit Judge, and Torresen, District Judge.


Adolfo León García-Sierra ("García") was convicted by a jury of conspiring to commit drug trafficking offenses and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 224 months and 8 days. He appeals both from his convictions and from his sentence, arguing that the erroneous admission of certain evidence tainted the verdicts...

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