Legal Opinion
United States v. Romano
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided January 3, 1975No. Crim. 74-475PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DITTER, District Judge.
Francisco Jose Romano was convicted at a trial without a jury of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a). Before me is Romano’s motion for a new trial based upon my refusal to suppress his statements and the fruits of a search made of the premises in which he lived.
On July 9, 1974, a United States Customs officer discovered seventy grams of cocaine secreted inside two Colombian newspapers addressed to a Jorge Pelaez and a Carlos Pelaez at a specific mail box located at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. After…
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