United States First Circuit

Conviction and sentence for possession and distribution of narcotics are affirmed where: 1) language in a Title III application was specific to the investigation and not boilerplate; 2) the government did not cast its investigation in overly broad terms to justify the wiretap; and 3) defendant could not establish a reasonable probability of a lesser sentence on remand.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/23/2006
• Published 06/23/2006

Judges

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

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John H. LaChance, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rachel E. Hershfang, Assistant U.S. Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, U.S. Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.