United States v. Vazquez-Soto, No. 17-1879 (1st Cir. 2019)
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The First Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court convicting Defendant of two counts of making false statements and one count of theft of government property, holding that sufficient evidence supported Defendant's convictions and that the district court did not abuse its discretion in its evidentiary rulings or in its response to the jury's request for a transcript.
On appeal, Defendant argued that the trial court (1) erred in denying his motion for a judgment of acquittal, (2) abused its discretion in admitting into evidence photographs taken from a Facebook page under the name of Defendant's ex-wife, and (3) abused its discretion by declining to provide the jury with the transcript of certain witness testimony and did not inform the jury that it could request a readback of the testimony. The First Circuit affirmed, holding (1) Defendant's convictions were supported by sufficient evidence; (2) the Facebook photos were properly admitted despite an authentication objection; and (3) the district court did not err in its response to the jury's request for a transcript.
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