Cases

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge. These consolidated appeals arise from an indictment alleging that the appellants, along with over seventy other co-defendants, participated in an extensive drug smuggling and distribution network in southwest Puerto Rico from 1994 to 1997. The appellants were all convicted at trial and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. They make various assignments of error

286 F.Supp.2d 103 (2003) Carmen RIVERA DE JESUS, Plaintiff, v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, Defendant. Civil No. 03-1145(JAG). United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico. September 12, 2003. *104 Raymond Rivera-Esteves, Juan Hernandez Rivera & Assoc., San Juan, PR, for Plaintiff. Camille L. Velez-Rive, United Sta

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 19-2054 UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. CARLOS ROBERTO GARCÍA-PÉREZ, Defendant, Appellant. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO [Hon. Francisco A. Besosa, U.S. District Judge]

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 16-2503 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, v. ADOLFO LEÓN GARCÍA-SIERRA, Defendant, Appellant. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO [Hon. Francisco A. Besosa, U.S. District Judge]

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 18-1265 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, v. JOHN MICHAEL GARCÍA-MOJICA, Defendant, Appellant. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO [Hon. Gustavo A. Gelpí, Chief, U.S. District Judge]

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 18-1629 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, v. HÉCTOR GARCÍA-CARTAGENA, a/k/a/ Arana, Defendant, Appellant. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO [Hon. Aida M. Delgado-Colón, U.S. District Judge]

SELYA, Circuit Judge. Having identified defendant-appellant Fulvio Flete-Garcia as the architect of a massive swindle, the government charged him with a litany of fraud-based crimes. Following four days of trial, Flete-Garcia threw in the towel and entered a straight guilty plea to all 48 counts of the indictment. Prior to sentencing, though, Flete-Garcia experienced buyer's remorse and

PER CURIAM: A jury convicted Wilberth Medina Garcia of illegal reentry. Garcia now appeals his conviction, arguing that the district court erred by (1) permitting the government to bolster the credibility of its declarants improperly, (2) overruling Garcia's hearsay and Confrontation Clause objections to the government's evidence, and (3) denying Garcia's motion for a new trial predicat

EDWARD C. PRADO, Circuit Judge: Jaime Shakur Garcia pleaded guilty to one count of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of possessing and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. In calculating Garcia’s sentence for the Hobbs Act robbery count, the district court applied a sentencing enhancement based on the assessment that Garcia and his codefendants had physical

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 16-50490 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v. 5:14-cr-00036- VAP-1 NOE RAYGOZA-GARCIA, Defendant-Appellant.

MARCUS, Circuit Judge: *1260This is a troubling case. There can be no doubt-and the government does not contest the point-that constitutional error occurred. It is also clear that the error was plain and obvious. The decision to allow the government to introduce inculpatory evidence while both the defendant and her lawyer were absent for thr

JUDGMENT PER CURIAM. This Cause having been heard and considered, it is *928OrdbRed and Adjudged: AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

675 F.3d 1091 (2012) UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Miguel Angel GARCIA, Appellant. No. 11-2338. United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Submitted: February 15, 2012. Filed: April 4, 2012. *1092 Aaron James Morrison, Minneapolis, MN, for appellant. Lisa D. Kirkpatrick, AUSA, St. Paul, MN, f

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 12-1907 ITZEL GARCÍA-CATALÁN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant, Appellee. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO [Hon. Daniel R. Domínguez, U.S. District Judge]

OPINION BERZON, Circuit Judge: Alberto Garcia-Jimenez pled guilty to illegal reentry into the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. At sentencing, the district court increased Garcia-Jimenez’s base offense level because of a prior aggravated assault conviction in New Jersey. The court concluded that the conviction constituted a categorical “crim

613 F.3d 749 (2010) UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Eddie GARCIA, Appellant. No. 09-2281. United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Submitted: March 9, 2010. Filed: July 21, 2010. *751 Jennifer L. Gilg, AFPD, argued, Michael F. Maloney, AFPD, on the brief, Omaha, NE, for Appellant. Susan T. Le

ED CARNES, Chief Judge: ■Jose Gabriel Garcia-Martinez pleaded guilty to illegal reentry after deportation in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2) and was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment. He appeals his sentence, contending that the district court erred by applying a 16-level enhancement under United States Sentencing Guidelines § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii) (2014) for reentering t

SELYA, Circuit Judge. Following resentencing, defendant-appellant José A. Garcia-Ortiz challenges his conviction and sentence on one of three counts of conviction on the ground that the challenged conviction and sentence violate the Double Jeopardy Clause. He simulta *27 neously challenges his sentence

SUMMARY ORDER Rosalie Garcia, Manuel Roman, and Ricardo Silva appeal from judgments of conviction entered on June 14, 2006, July 24, 2006, and August 18, 2006, respectively, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Lynch, /.), following a six-week jury trial on a twelve-count superseding indictment charging them with racketeering, narcotics trafficking, murder and other offenses related to thei

606 F.3d 1317 (2010) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Luis PALOMINO GARCIA, a.k.a. Ramon Lopez-Garcia, a.k.a. Jose Luis Palomino Garcia, a.k.a. Luis Garcia Palomino, a.k.a. Jose Luis Palomino, Defendant-Appellant. No. 09-10534. United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. May 21, 2010. *1319 George Allen Cout