United States First Circuit

Convictions and sentencing for conspiring to transport and transporting an illegal alien within the US are affirmed where defendants have not carried their appellate burdens of demonstrating that no rational jury could have convicted beyond a reasonable doubt.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/16/2003
• Published 07/16/2003

Judges

• JOHN C. PORFILIO, Senior Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, PORFILIO, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Darla J. Mondou, with whom John M. Claffey was on the brief for appellant., Demetra Lambros, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, with whom Margaret E. Curran, United States Attorney, and James H. Leavey, Assistant United States Attorney General were on the brief, for the United States.