United States v. Ramirez-Rivera, No. 13-2285 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendants Jose Laureano-Salgado, Pedro Ramirez-Rivera, and Ismael Cruz-Ramos were convicted of multiple drug and gun offenses. Defendants were all sentenced to life in prison. The First Circuit (1) vacated Cruz-Ramos’s conviction and sentence and remanded his case for a new trial, holding that the district court erred in denying his motion to suppress the fruits of a police search of his home and car and that including the erroneously admitted evidence at trial was not harmless; and (2) affirmed Laureano-Salgado’s and Ramirez-Rivera’s convictions and sentences, holding that the evidence was sufficient to support their convictions, that there was no merit to Defendants’ claims regarding jury selection, that the district court’s evidentiary rulings made during the trial did not amount to reversible error, that the jury was properly instructed, and that there was no sentencing error.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on September 1, 2015.
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