Legal Opinion
United States v. Ivan Garcia-Paz
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 13, 2002No. 01-50078PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
Garcia-Paz appeals from his conviction, following a jury trial, of importation of merchandise in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 545 (2001). He argues that (1) for the purposes of section 545, marijuana does not constitute “merchandise”; (2) the district court improperly refused to instruct the jury that it must find that Garcia-Paz knowingly imported marijuana in order to sustain a conviction under section 545; and (3) there was insufficient evidence to support his conviction of importation of merchandise in violation of section 545 because he believed he was smuggling…
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