United States First Circuit

District court's sentence and conviction of defendant for aiding and abetting a carjacking is affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded where: 1) defendant's conviction is affirmed as, although the district court allegedly committed several errors with respect to jury selection, its handling of evidentiary objections, and its handling of a jury note, these alleged errors were all relatively benign; but 2) because defendant was not afforded his right of allocution, his sentence is vacated and remanded.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/13/2010
• Published 01/13/2010

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, HANSEN and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

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


• For Appellees:
  
• German A. Rieckehoff, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Rosa E. Rodriguez Velez, United States Attorney and Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Division, were on brief, for appellee.