United States First Circuit

Conviction for conspiracy and aiding and abetting a motor vehicle hijacking with intent to cause death is vacated and remanded where: 1) the district court properly denied defendant's motion for aquittal as the evidence was sufficient to support his conviction; and 2) the district court's intervention in questioning a defense witness went beyond the appropriate limits and elicited inadmissible, prejudicial testimony that interfered with defendant's fair trial rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2009
• Published 05/15/2009

Judges

• LYNCH, Chief Judge., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rafael F. Castro Lang for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Julia Diaz Rex, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney (Chief, Appellate Division), and Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez, United States Attorney, were on brief for appellee.