Legal Opinion

United States v. Verdin-Garcia

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided February 19, 2008No. 06-3354PublishedCited by 76 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

Fidencio Verdin-Garcia and Miguel Romero were convicted on March 21, 2006, of multiple crimes relating to their leadership of a large marijuana and methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy located in and around Kansas City, Kansas. Each was sentenced to serve three concurrent life sentences in prison, and to other, shorter concurrent sentences. They appeal, and we now affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

We take the evidence from Appellants’ trial, as we must, in the light most favorable to the government. That evidence showed that Appellants are illegal immigrants from Nayarit, a…

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