Legal Opinion
United States v. Phillips
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 28, 1981No. Nos. 79-3189, 80-5320PublishedCited by 636 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judge:
Appellants were members of a marijuana smuggling organization which called itself the “Black Tuna” enterprise. The Black Tuna group imported on a massive scale. According to statements by one appellant, during the period from October 1976 to shortly after September 1977, one of the four years covered by the indictment, the Black Tuna group successfully imported into the United States over one million pounds of marijuana.
Twelve defendants were charged in a one-hundred page superseding indictment containing thirty-six counts. The superseding indictment…
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