United States v. Delgado-Marrero, No. 11-1660 (1st Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, two former San Jan municipal police officers, Raquel Delgado-Marrero (“Delgado”) and Angel Rivera-Claudio (“Rivera”), were convicted on drug and gun charges arising from an FBI reverse sting operation. Both defendants received a fifteen-year sentence. The First Circuit Court of Appeals (1) vacated Delgado’s convictions and remanded her case for a new trial, holding that the district court committed reversible error by excluding the testimony of a defense witness; and (2) withheld judgment on Rivera’s convictions for thirty days, holding that Rivera’s sentence could not stand in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Alleyne v. United States, where the district court plainly erred in articulating the jury instructions imparted in connection with a post-verdict special jury form.
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