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U.S. v. BRAVO-FERNANDEZ

Nos. 14-1089, 14-1091.

790 F.3d 41 (2015)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Juan BRAVO-FERNANDEZ and Hector Martínez-Maldonado, Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 15, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin G. Weinberg, with whom David Z. Chesnoff, Chesnoff & Schonfeld, and Kimberly Homan were on brief, for appellant Juan Bravo-Fernandez.

Abbe David Lowell, with whom Christopher D. Man and Chadbourne & Park LLP were on brief, for appellant Hector Martínez-Maldonado.

Vijay Shanker, United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Appellate Section, with whom Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General, David A. O'Neil, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Peter M. Koski, United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, were on brief, for appellee.

Before HOWARD, LIPEZ, and BARRON, Circuit Judges.

This appeal raises important and, in our Circuit, novel issues about when an acquittal in an earlier trial may be deemed to bar, under the Double Jeopardy Clause, a new prosecution on a related offense. The legal issues arise in connection with the federal bribery prosecutions of a former member of the Puerto Rico Senate and...

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