Legal Opinion
United States v. Luis Eduardo Mahecha-Onofre
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 20, 1991No. 90-1405PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Chief Judge.
Luis Mahecha Onofre appeals his conviction and 146 month prison sentence for unlawfully bringing cocaine into the United States. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) (possession with intent to distribute); 952(a) (importation of controlled substance in United States); 955 (controlled substance aboard aircraft). He makes three arguments. We find none of them convincing.
First, Mahecha says that the evidence was not sufficient to support the convictions, in particular the conviction for possessing cocaine with intent to distribute it to others. The evidence shows, however, that, on…
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