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First Circuit· 3/6/1989

United States v. Jimenez-Perez

Citations

  • 869 F.2d 9

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that the jury's disbelief of defendants' story allows legitimate inference \that the fabrication was all the more proof of their guilt\
  • noting that the Government need not \'preclude every reasonable hypothesis inconsistent with guilt' in order to sustain a conviction\ (quoting United States v. Guerrero-Guerrero, 776 F.2d 1071, 1075 (1st Cir. 1985))
  • specifying that willfulness is an element of the ___ ___ offense
  • deeming it “apodictic that a trier of fact is not bound to accept' the self-serving stories of persons accused”
  • if jury disbelieved defendant’s story, “it could legitimately have presumed that the fabrication was all the more proof of ... guilt”
  • the jury could legitimately have presumed that the fabrication was all the more proof of [defendants] guilt

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Judges: Campbell, Selya, Torruella

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