United States v. Aviles-Colon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence that a defendant was an “enforcer” was sufficient to convict him for participating in a drug conspiracy
• holding that evidence of defendant’s role as “trig-german” or “enforcer” for organization that was often at war with other drug organizations “was sufficient to permit a reasonable jury to conclude that he was part of drug conspiracy and not merely a ‘hired gun.’ ”
• finding it unlikely that isolated remark tying the drugs and violence issues in defendant’s case to the greater problems of drugs and violence in Puerto Rico prejudiced the outcome of the case
• “[I]t is improper to appeal to the jury’s emotions and role as the conscience of the community.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).