United States First Circuit

Promising leniency in exchange for testimony does not make a government witness' testimony inherently unreliable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/24/2000
• Published 10/24/2000

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Luis Rafael Rivera, by appointment of the court, on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jacabed Rodriguez-Coss, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, and Jorge E. Vega-Pacheco, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.