United States First Circuit

Although one tape-recorded conversation of the defendant, convicted of distributing cocaine, should not have been admitted, the erroneous admission does not warrant reversal, and defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence held "hopeless."

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/26/2002
• Published 07/26/2002

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, LYNCH and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward S. MacColl, with whom Thompson, Bull, Furey, Bass & MacColl, LLC, P.A., was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Margaret D. McGaughey, Assistant United States Attorney (Appellate Chief), with whom Paula D. Silsby, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.