United States First Circuit

Where government agents identified one of three defendants, found together, as the captain of a boat containing 700 kilograms of cocaine, from which three men escaped, and phone records linked defendants to crimes, the evidence was sufficient to support drug-related convictions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/19/2002
• Published 02/19/2002

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, KRAVITCH, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alexander Zeno for appellant Ruben Lopez-Lopez., Maria H. Sandoval for appellant Carlos Santana., Rafael F. Castro-Lang for appellant Ramon Luciano-del-Rosario.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy S. Vásquez, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, and Jorge E. Vega-Pacheco and Thomas F. Klumper, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on brief for appellee.