United States Court of Appeals
                     For the First Circuit

No. 18-1859

                    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                            Appellee,

                               v.

                      JUAN E. SEARY-COLÓN,

                      Defendant, Appellant.


          APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
                FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

          [Hon. Gustavo A. Gelpí, U.S. District Judge]


                             Before

                      Howard, Chief Judge,
              Thompson and Barron, Circuit Judges.


     Johnny Rivera-González for appellant.
     Seth A. Tremble, Special Assistant United States Attorney,
with whom W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney, and
Mariana E. Bauzá-Almonte, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief,
Appellate Division, were on brief, for appellee.



                           May 4, 2021
            THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.       Defendant-appellant Juan E.

Seary-Colón ("Seary") was charged with Hobbs Act robbery, in

violation of 

(a) (Count One); murdering a person

through the use of a firearm during a crime of violence, in

violation of