United States v. Felipe Martinez-Nava and Jose Cepeda-Cabada

LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

Defendants Jose Cepeda-Cabada (Cepe-da) and Felipe Martinez-Nava (Martinez) appeal their convictions for transporting and harboring illegal aliens, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2) and (3), as those subsections read before amendment on November 2, 1986, and for aiding and abetting, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2. Jointly, defendants argue that the district court (1) wrongly excluded veniremen who lived a substantial distance from the courthouse and (2) gave an improper supplemental instruction to the jury during deliberations. Individually, Cepeda argues that the…