United States v. Flores Rivera

How courts have described this case

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• finding that acquittals suggested \that the jury was able to sift through the evidence in an analytical fashion and that the alleged spillover effect did not cause the jury merely to enter a lump sum conviction\
• noting that “[o]nce a defendant has been convicted by a petit jury, the petit jury’s verdict of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt demonstrates fortiori that there was probable cause to charge the defendants with the offenses for which they were convicted” (citation omitted)
• discussing effect on co-defendant Flores-Rivera of Cedrés's testimony concerning Escobar's prior incarceration
• excusing seven- year time gap when \other reliability criteria were sufficiently persuasive\
• overwhelming national interest served by use of English in federal courts justifies conducting Puerto Rican proceedings in English and requiring jurors to be proficient in that language
• seven year gap between crime and identification permissible because other reliability criteria were sufficiently persuasive

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