Legal Opinion
United States v. Anaya
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided December 19, 1980No. 80-231-CR-EPSPublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPELLMAN, District Judge:
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO DISMISS
The eighty-four indictments before the Court today are a consequence of the massive “Cuban Refugee Freedom Flotilla”1 which took place in the Spring of 1980 and which resulted in over 125,000 undocumented Cuban nationals being transported from Mariel, Cuba to Key West, Florida. In total, the 84 indictments name 836 defendants, charging each with a substantive violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1) or a conspiracy to violate 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a). That statute, in pertinent part, proscribes bringing into or landing in…
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