United States First Circuit

The Court denied defendant's motion to compel internal court memoranda written by the judge who presided over the trial because 1) the memoranda are confidential, 2) the memoranda are not part of the district court record, and 3) a defendant has no vested right to a particular judge who acts for the court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/14/2004
• Published 07/14/2004

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, LYNCH and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Luis M. Cháves-Ghigliotty, for appellant Angel Casas., Terrance J. McCarthy, for appellant José Bonilla-Lugo., Donna R. Newman, for appellant John Correy., Mauricio Hernández-Arroyo, for appellant Angel Luis Pizarro-Morales., Rodney S. Dowell, with whom Berman & Dowell, was on brief, for appellant Ramón Flores-Plaza., Linda George, for appellant Raymond Nicolai-Cabassa.


• For Appellees:
  
• Miguel A. Fernández, with whom Lisa Snell-Rivera, Assistant United States Attorneys, and H.S. García, United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.