Legal Opinion
United States v. Sylvia Vasquez-Chan, United States of America v. Julia Gaxiola-Castillo
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 2, 1992No. 91-10286, 91-10326PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
Based almost exclusively on the seizure of over six hundred kilograms of cocaine in the house in which they were temporarily residing, Sylvia Vasquez-Chan [Yasquez] and Julia Gaxiola-Castillo [Gaxiola] were convicted by a jury of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or moré of cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841, 18 U.S.C. § 2, and 21 U.S.C. § 846. Both defendants were sentenced to the mandatory minimum period of incarceration: ten years, with an additional six years of supervised release. We find that the evidence was legally…
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