United States First Circuit

Sentences for conspiracy to transport cocaine are vacated where the district court erred by conflating the two steps of the analysis for an abuse of trust enhancement laid down in US v. Reccko, 151 F.3d 29 (1st Cir. 1998).

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/09/2007
• Published 05/09/2007

Judges

• SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, SELYA and TASHIMA, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ramón García García on brief for appellant Parrilla Román., Jorge L. Armenteros-Chervoni for appellant Ortiz Santiago., Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney, was on brief, for the United States.