United States v. Castro

OPINION OF THE COURT

JAMES HUNTER, III, Circuit Judge:

Victor Castro, Pablo Garcia-Remedio, and Thomas Suarez appeal their convictions in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for offenses stemming from the attempted purchase of more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana. This appeal requires us to decide whether an asserted variation between the indictment and the evidence presented at trial violated the fifth amendment’s grand jury clause, whether the evidence at trial sufficed to convict Garcia-Remedio and Suarez, and whether the trial court’s instructions fairly…