United States First Circuit

In appeals arising from convictions on firearms charges and, in one case, a drug charge, all of which stemmed from an undercover investigation into a weapons ring in Puerto Rico, defendants' convictions and sentences are affirmed over various challenges with the exception of one defendant's conviction under section 924(c)(1)(B) and its companion 30-year sentence, which are vacated as the government failed to show that the gun was carried "during and in relation to" a drug trafficking crime.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/20/2010
• Published 07/20/2010

Judges

• BOUDIN, Circuit Judge

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anita Hill Adames, Thomas F. Klumper