United States First Circuit

By pleading guilty unconditionally to a charge of possession of drugs on a stateless vessel with intent to distribute, defendant forfeited any claim that the boat in question was a foreign (rather than a stateless) vessel, under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/22/2002
• Published 11/22/2002

Judges

• BOUDIN, Chief Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Raymond L. Sánchez-Maceira for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Guillermo Gil, former United States Attorney, and Jorge E. Vega-Pacheco, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for appellee.