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UNITED STATES v. REYNOLDS

No. 20-1268.

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. FRANCIS M. REYNOLDS, a/k/a Frank Reynolds, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

April 9, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis M. Reynolds on brief pro se.

Mark T. Quinlivan , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Nathaniel R. Mendell , Acting United States Attorney, Sara Miron Bloom , Assistant United States Attorney, and Leslie Wright , Assistant United States Attorney, were on the brief, for appellee.

Judith H. Mizner, Assistant Federal Defender for The Office of the Federal Defender, Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, amicus curiae.

Before Barron, , Thompson and Kayatta, .

The appellant in this direct criminal appeal died while it was pending before our court. We thus confront the question of whether, to dispose of this appeal, we should apply the doctrine of abatement ab initio or follow some other course.

Under the abatement doctrine, when a criminal defendant...

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