Legal Opinion
United States v. Ernesto De Jesus Gaviria
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 8, 1973No. 72-2291PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY, Circuit Judge:
The sole ground of appeal from this conviction for conspiracy to distribute and distribution of cocaine [21 U.S.C.A. §§ 846 and 952(a)] is that the circumstantial evidence against appellant was not sufficient to exclude to a moral certainty every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt, so that there was insufficient evidence to support the conviction.
The government’s theory was that certain co-defendants arranged with United States government undercover agents in French Martinique for an airplane pilot to transport $240,000 worth of cocaine, secreted under the pilot’s…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- William Dennis Riggs v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- Carl Roberts and Barbara Bookout v. United States of America, John Cocco v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- United States v. John Gordon McGlamoryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Allen James Harper v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
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3Cited by6 opinions
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