US v. Forty Estremera

Case Date: 10/16/1995
Court: United States Court of Appeals
Docket No: 93-1679

United States Court of Appeals
For the First Circuit
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No. 93-1679

UNITED STATES,

Appellee,

v.

VICTOR LEVY-CORDERO,

Defendant, Appellant.

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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

[Hon. Raymond L. Acosta, Senior U.S. District Judge]

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Before

Torruella, Chief Judge,

Coffin and Cyr, Senior Circuit Judges.

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Jeffrey S. Weiner, Linda L. Houghtaling and Jeffrey S. Weiner,
P.A. on brief, for appellant.
James K. Robinson, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Theresa M.B. Van Vliet,
Chief, Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, Criminal Division, U.S.
Department of Justice, and Grace Chung Becker, Trial Attorney,
Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, Criminal Division, U.S.
Department of Justice, on brief, for appellee.


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September 17, 1998
____________________ TORRUELLA, Chief Judge. In United States v. Levy-
Cordero, 67 F.3d 1002 (1st Cir. 1995) (Levy I), this court heard
the appeals of three co-defendants convicted, inter alia, of taking
part in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over
1,000 kilograms of marijuana. We rejected the appeals of two of
the defendants, but found that an error had been made in the trial
of the third, V