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U.S. v. Rivera-Rodriguez, No. 11-1689 (1st Cir.) (761 F.3d 105) (August 4, 2014) (Judge Kermit A. Lipez)

Loaded on Nov. 3, 2014 published in Punch and Jurists November 03, 2014
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Cumulative Effect.

Here the Court vacated a conviction because the district court had engaged in repeated “improper judicial intervention” by “taking on the prosecutor’s role” through hostile and prejudicial questioning of witnesses and by “unreasonable fact-finding”.

This is an important and instructive decision in which the First Circuit vacated the conviction of ...

 

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