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585 F.3d 652 (2009) UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Martin AGUILAR, also known as Sassy, Jeffrey Taylor, Quincy Martinez, Angel Navarro, also known as Prep, Anthony Perez, also known as Little Anthony, Edwin Aguilar, also known as Lucky, Armando Molina, Eric Rosario, also known as Buzz, Defendants, Gilberto Caraballo, also known as Carlos Caraballo, also known as Anthony Rodriguez, Defendant-Appellant. Docket No.

SUMMARY ORDER Defendant Gilberto Caraballo was convicted, after a jury trial, of five counts relating to the murder of Jose Fernandez, see 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) (substantive and conspiratorial murder-for-hire); id. § 373(a) (solicitation to commit a crime of violence); id. § 924(c) (use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence); 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) (murder while engaging in a narcotics offense); on

SUMMARY ORDER Defendant Gilberto Caraballo was convicted, after a jury trial, of five counts relating to the murder of Jose Fernandez, see 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) (substantive and conspiratorial murder-for-hire); id. § 373(a) (solicitation to commit a crime of violence); id. § 924(c) (use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence); 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) (murder while engaging in a narcotics offense); on

SUMMARY ORDER Defendant-Appellant Martin Aguilar appeals from a judgment of conviction and sentence of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Raymond J. Dearie, Chief Judge), entered on February 26, 2007. Aguilar was convicted, after a jury trial, of two counts of murder for hire; one count of drug related murder; one count of using and carrying a firearm in relation to a crime of violence; one c

GAJARSA, Circuit Judge. ORDER The United States moves for summary affirmance of the April 30, 1998 order of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granting the United States’ motion for summary judgment. Leonardo Nery et al. oppose. Nery et al. served the United States as New Philippine Scouts during and after World War II. Nery et al. filed a civil action

18-2836(L) United States v. Scott UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT _______________ August Term 2019 (Argued: November 22, 2019 Decided: November 5, 2020) Docket Nos. 18-2836, 18-2882 _______________ UNITED ST

STAHL, Circuit Judge. This appeal arises out of Defendant-Appellant Brad Smith's conviction for producing six videos depicting him sexually assaulting a three-year-old child. Smith challenges the district court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence recovered from his residence on a Louisiana pecan farm, including a laptop computer and two hard drives that contained the videos in q

UNITED STATES COAST GUARD COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS UNITED STATES v. Matthew A. ROGERS Electrician’s Mate Third Class (E-4), U.S. Coast Guard CGCMG 0361 Docket No. 1391 21 Febru

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge. From 2002 to 2007, Jerold Sorensen, an oral surgeon in California, concealed his income from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and underpaid his income taxes by more than $1.5 million. He did so by using a “pure trust” scheme, peddled by Financial Fortress Associates (“FFA”), an entity he found on the Internet. After attending an FFA seminar and con

OPINION AND ORDER GARCIA-GREGORY,. United States District Judge This case asks a seemingly easy question:- are murder and attempted murder *230violent felonies that require the “use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force.” However, the legal analysis of this question turns out to be more complicated and convoluted than common sense wou

OPINION AND ORDER AIDA M. DELGADO-COLÓN, Chief United States District Judge By an Indictment, dated June 30, 2016, a grand jury has charged defendants Gerald Mata-Peña (“Mata”) and Domingo Ramos-Hernández (“Ramos”) with Possession of Cocaine with Intent to Distribute, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug-Trafficking Crime, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A). ECF No. 5 at 1-2.

OPINION AND ORDER GUSTAVO A. GELPI, United States District Judge I. Background On February 1, 2013, defendant Hilton Cordero-Rosario (“defendant “or “Corde-ro-Rosario”) entered into a conditional agreement in which he pleaded guilty to count 21 of the superseding indictment charging him with possession of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B). (Docket No. 80.)

OPINION SESSIONS, District Judge: Defendant-appellant Rosario Vazquez-Hernandez appeals his conviction for attempted illegal reentry under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 on the ground that there was insufficient evidence to support his conviction. Vazquez-Hernandez also notes that the district court’s instruction at trial failed to properly inform the jury of the es

807 F.Supp.2d 1154 (2011) UNITED STATES of America, v. Juan Manuel ACOSTA, Martin Arreola-Romero, Angel Luis Ayala, Otha Barnes, Gerald Edward Durrance, Martina Casas Flores, Ramiro Hernandez-Duque, Jorge Lucatero-Torres, Belisario Gil Mendoza, Juan Manuel Mendoza, Raphael Pedroza Perez, Obiel Pineda-Pardo, Alfonso Rios, Jr., Jose Cesar Almeida, Jorge Alejandro Anaya-Medina, Luis Manuel Haces-Delgado, Alejandro De La Cruz-Plancarte, Javier De La

Judge SACK dissents in part in a separate opinion. JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge: Defendants-Appellants Sanjay Kumar and Stephen Richards appeal from separate judgments of conviction by the district court (I. Leo Glasser, Judge), pursuant to their guilty pleas to several counts of conspiracy, securities and wire fraud, obstruction of justice, and perjury. After accepting their pleas, the district cou

08-4640-cr United States v. Caraballo UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS F OR THE S ECOND C IRCUIT August Term, 2009 (Argued: September 21, 2009 Decided: November 5, 2009) Docket No. 08-4640-cr U NITED S TATES OF A MERICA,

SELYA, Circuit Judge. The genesis of these appeals can be traced to the gangland slaying of Edward “Teddy” Deegan, which occurred in 1965 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Initially, the murder went unsolved. Two years later, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), intent on frying bigger fish, cultivated a cooperating witness, Joseph Barboza, with tight ties to organized c

RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge: Wade Hampton Bigelow does not challenge his conviction in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. At issue is only whether the following special conditions for his supervised release in the written judgment conflict with the oral pronouncements at his sentencing: (1) participating in drug-trea

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge. Nelson Santana was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute between one-half and five kilograms of cocaine. After considering Santana’s challenges, which were ably briefed and well argued, we affirm. I. Background Facts In 1998, local, state, and federal law enforcement

140 F.Supp.2d 50 (2001) Frederic W. BERTHOFF, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. No. CIV.A.97-10883-WGY. United States District Court, D. Massachusetts. April 9, 2001. *51 Michael C. Bourbeau, Boston, MA, for Frederic W. Berthoff, Petitioner. Andrew Levchuk, United States Attorney's Office, Springfield, M