United States v. Freitas, No. 17-2092 (1st Cir. 2018)
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The First Circuit affirmed Defendant’s convictions for bulk-cash smuggling and currency structuring, holding that no reversible error occurred during the proceedings below.
Specifically, the Court held (1) Defendant failed to demonstrate that the district court’s admission into evidence of certain statements under the coconspirator exception to the hearsay rule was prejudicial; (2) the district judge did not err in instructing the jury; (3) Defendant waived his claim that the district judge erred by not granting his motion for acquittal on the structuring count; and (4) the prosecutor did not make prejudicial comments in closing arguments or at sentencing.
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