United States v. Tucker, No. 21-1515 (1st Cir. 2023)
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The First Circuit affirmed the judgment of the trial court convicting Defendant of sex trafficking of a minor, use of an interstate facility to promote unlawful activity, and maintaining a drug-involved premises, holding that Defendant was not entitled to relief on his claims of error.
On appeal, Defendant argued that the trial judge erred in denying his motion to a mistrial after the trial judge dismissed two jurors immediately before the jury started deliberating and further erred in denying his motion for a new trial. The First Circuit affirmed, holding (1) there was no patent abuse of discretion in the trial judge's conclusion that mistrial was unwarranted; and (2) Defendant was not entitled to a new trial on the ground that the government had suppressed impeachment information about one of its witnesses because the suppression did not undermine the confidence in the jury's guilty verdicts.
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