Legal Opinion
United States v. Melchor Tafoya, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 15, 1972No. 71-1567PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SETH, Circuit Judge.
Melchor Tafoya, Jr., appeals from a judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict, for the possession of heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 174.
The evidence in this case, uncontested on appeal, reveals these facts: At the time of his arrest, the defendant, along with his grandmother, his sister, and other members of his family, occupied three adjacent houses in Albuquerque, New Mexico. On the afternoon of April 14, 1971, several members of the Albuquerque Police Department conducted a search of these houses pursuant to a validly executed search warrant. In the course of…
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