UNITED STATES v. PINA-NIEVES

No. 22-1421.

59 F.4th 9 (2023)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Rafael PINA-NIEVES, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 30, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin G. Weinberg , with whom Kimberly Homan was on brief, for appellant.

Kevin Barber , United States Department of Justice, with whom W. Stephen Muldrow , United States Attorney, Mariana E. Bauzá-Almonte , Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Division, Gregory Conner , Assistant United States Attorney, Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. , Assistant Attorney General, and Lisa H. Miller , Deputy Assistant Attorney General, were on brief, for appellee.

Before Barron, Chief Judge, Lynch, Circuit Judge, and Kelley, District Judge.


Rafael Pina-Nieves challenges his 2021 convictions in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico for, respectively, possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and possessing a machinegun in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(o). We affirm the former conviction...

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