Opinion ID: 692321
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Heading: issues

Text: 14 Puentes raises the following issues: (1) whether his prosecution under Count IV of the superseding indictment was for a different offense than the offense for which he was extradited; (2) whether his sentence should have been computed under the Sentencing Guidelines; (3) whether the district court improperly admitted evidence that was not properly authenticated; (4) whether he was entitled to a mistrial on the grounds that the jury heard hearsay testimony that a coconspirator had implicated Puentes in his post arrest statements; (5) whether the district court allowed the government to present irrelevant evidence of Puentes's participation in a conspiracy to import drugs into a foreign country; (6) whether the district court incorrectly made certain evidentiary ruling whose cumulative effect warrants a new trial; (7) whether the government impermissibly exercised peremptory challenges solely on the basis of race; and, (8) whether the district court erred in denying his motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence.