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location location Normandy Isle cityNormandy Isle Cell-tower records placed Rivera's phone in the Normandy Isle area of Miami Beach — including near 79th and Byron Avenue — on the morning of July 19, 2014, the day Rivera testified he participated in the money drop. The neighborhood is also connected to a residence associated with a person referred to as "Shrimp." DeCoste used this signal on cross-examination to impeach Rivera's account of his whereabouts; Rivera offered a two-phone explanation to reconcile why that handset showed Normandy Isle rather than his claimed location. ← All Locations
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Cell-tower records placed Rivera's phone in the Normandy Isle area of Miami Beach — including near 79th and Byron Avenue — on the morning of July 19, 2014, the day Rivera testified he participated in the money drop. The neighborhood is also connected to a residence associated with a person referred to as "Shrimp." DeCoste used this signal on cross-examination to impeach Rivera's account of his whereabouts; Rivera offered a two-phone explanation to reconcile why that handset showed Normandy Isle rather than his claimed location.

79th and Byron Avenue, Normandy Isle, Miami BeachNormandy Isle / Miami BeachNormandy Isle, Miami (Rivera's handset area on July 19 morning)
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Normandy Isle anchors a cell-tower impeachment thread that recurred across three proceedings in the Magbanua retrial. The location data was central to DeCoste's cross-examination challenge to Rivera's stated whereabouts on July 19, and Rivera's two-phone explanation — offered to account for the Normandy Isle handset signal — was a live credibility issue bearing on his cooperating-witness testimony.

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