United States First Circuit

Convictions for a Hobbs Act conspiracy, a witness tampering conspiracy, and being an accessory after the fact to a witness tampering killing are affirmed over defendant's arguments that: 1) the government's concession that the evidence was insufficient to establish two of the three objects of a multi-object conspiracy to violate the witness tampering statute warrants a new trial; 2) the district court erred in denying defendant the right to confront a government cooperating witness with the theory that his reward in exchange for testifying included avoidance of the death penalty; and 3) defendant's Hobbs Act conspiracy conviction must be vacated because there was insufficient evidence before both the grand jury and the petit jury.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/23/2007
• Published 05/23/2007

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• United States First Circuit

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