United States v. Sada Vargas, A/K/A Zaida Hernandez

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from conviction on substantive and conspiracy charges raises a question under Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640, 66 S.Ct. 1180, 90 L.Ed. 1489 (1946), about some of the trial court’s instructions possibly relating to the substantive count. The case also calls into question applicability of the “concurrent sentence” doctrine, since appellant was sentenced by the United States District Court for the Southern District Of New York, John M. Cannella, Judge, to concurrent terms of three years’ imprisonment on Counts One (conspiracy to violate federal narcotics…