UNITED STATES v. CORTEZ-OROPEZA

No. 21-1209.

40 F.4th 50 (2022)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Rafael CORTEZ-OROPEZA, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 13, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven A. Feldman and Feldman & Feldman on brief for appellant.

W. Stephen Muldrow , United States Attorney, Mariana E. Bauzá-Almonte , Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Division, and David C. Bornstein , Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.

Before Barron, Chief Judge, Lynch and Gelpí, Circuit Judges.


Rafael Cortez-Oropeza seeks to have this court set aside his convictions from his March 2020 jury trial for unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and for unlawfully possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number, id. § 922(k). The...

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