United States First Circuit

Conviction and sentence for transporting illegal aliens are affirmed over defendant's claims that: 1) the district judge's instructions to the jury deprived him of a fair trial; 2) the judge's limitation of his counsel's questions deprived him of his right to effective cross-examination of witnesses; and 3) his sentence was unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/02/2007
• Published 02/02/2007

Judges

• STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Todd A. Bussert, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jacabed Rodríguez-Coss, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney, Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, and Germán A. Rieckehoff, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.