United States First Circuit

Under the co-conspirator exception to hearsay exception, defendant was not deprived of a fair trial by the allowance of prejudicial statements purportedly made by co-conspirators, despite the fact that no independent evidence, other than the statements themselves, showed by a preponderance of the evidence that a conspiracy existed between the declarant and the defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/06/2001
• Published 02/06/2001

Judges

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

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ignacio Fernández-de Lahongrais for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jacabed Rodríguez-Coss, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellee.