United States v. Juan Delgado, Emilio Albelo, Juan Carlos Riverol, Tomas Raul Hernandez

FAY, Senior Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises from a four-count conviction on assorted drug charges against Appellants/Co-Defendants Delgado and Albelo, a two-count conviction against Appellant/Co-Defendant Hernandez, and a one-count conviction against AppellanVCo-Defendant Riv-erol. Except as to Hernandez, the indicted activity involved a conspiracy and a substantive count for both importation and possession with intent to distribute at least five kilograms of cocaine.

The appellants allege myriad errors in the trial.

I. BACKGROUND

i. Procedure

In May of 1988 a federal grand jury in Miami…