United States First Circuit

Defendants' convictions and sentences for drug offenses are affirmed over both defendants' challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, one defendant's allegation of juror bias and the other defendant's challenge to the district court's decision to deny him safety-valve relief at sentencing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/14/2006
• Published 07/14/2006

Judges

• HANSEN, Senior Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, HANSEN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Irma R. Valldejuli, with whom Antonio Moreda Toledo, Victor M. Rivera Gonzalez, and Moreda, Moreda & Rivera Gonzalez, were on brief, for appellant Rodríguez-Ortiz., Lorenzo J. Palomares, for appellant Santana-Rodríguez.


• For Appellees:
  
• Julie B. Mosley, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Senior Appellate Assistant United States Attorney, Jacqueline D. Novas, Assistant United States Attorney, and H.S. García, United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.