Court Opinion

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                           UNITED STATES COURT  OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

          No. 93-1679

                                     UNITED STATES,
                                       Appellee,

                                          v.

                                  VICTOR LEVY-CORDERO,
                                 Defendant - Appellant.

          No. 93-2015

                                     UNITED STATES,
                                       Appellee,

                                          v.

                               WILLIAM ROMERO-LEWIS,
                              A/K/A CACO, EL TENIENTE,
                               Defendant - Appellant.

          No. 93-2087

                                     UNITED STATES,
                                       Appellee,

                                          v.

                              JOSE SAMUEL FORTY-ESTREMERA,
                                      A/K/A SAMMY,
                                 Defendant - Appellant.

                                         Before

                                Torruella, Chief Judqe,
                                           _____ _____
                             Coffin, Senior Circuit Judge,
                                     ______ _______ _____
                                and Cyr, Circuit Judge.
                                         _______ _____

                                     ORDER OF COURT

                               Entered   November 7, 1995

               The United States of America has filed a "Motion for
          Modification and Correction of Opinion" seeking two changes in the
          Court's opinion. The following is the disposition of said

          requests:

               1. Footnote 1 is amended to read "twelve years" in
          substitution of "twelve months."

          2. The last full paragraph of page 13 of the opinion of the
          Court is amended to read:

                    For the  foregoing reasons,  we conclude  that the
                    improper remarks  were not  so  prejudicial as  to
                    require reversal. Notwithstanding our  decision in
                    this regard,  we repeat  our concern that,  "after
                    numerous warnings from this court, the prosecuting
                    attorneys in  the District of Puerto  Rico persist
                    in spiking their arguments with comments that  put
                    their  cases at  risk."  United  States v.  Ortiz-
                                             ______  ______     ______
                    Arrigoitia,  996  F.2d 436,  441  (lst Cir.  1993)
                    __________
                    (collecting  cases). See, e.g., Udechukwu, 11 F.3d
                                         ___  ____  _________
                    1101; Arrieta-Aqressot,  3 F.3d  525. When, as  in
                          ________________
                    this   case,   a   visiting   Justice   Department
                    prosecutor  conducts  the  trial, we  nevertheless
                    expect  the  resident  United States  Attorney  to
                    insure   that  the   expectations  of   the  court
                    concerning   closing   argument  be   made  known.

               It is so Ordered.

                                                 By the Court:

                                                 FRANCIS P. SCIGLIANO,

                                                       Clerk.

                                                 By Janice M. O'Neil    
                                                 Chief Deputy Clerk.

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