United States First Circuit

Defendant's drug conviction is reversed on Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel grounds where the indicia of ineffectiveness are sufficiently developed in the record to warrant direct appellate review.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2004
• Published 09/09/2004

Judges

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

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alexander Zeno for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rose M. Vega, with whom H.S. García, United States Attorney, Sonia I. Torres, Assistant United States Attorney and Chief, Criminal Division, and Thomas F. Klumper, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for appellee.