Legal Opinion
United States v. Juan Maria Reyes, Jesus Diaz, Hernando Gutierrez-Andrade and Mario Luis Perez-Jaramillo
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 18, 1979No. 78-5426PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
The four defendants, illegal aliens from Colombia, were convicted of conspiracy to import and importation of marijuana in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 960(a)(1) and 963. They now claim there was insufficient evidence of their guilt to justify the jury’s verdict, and that the trial judge erred in refusing to exclude evidence secured by an exhaustive search of the aircraft on which they arrived in this country. Although we conclude that the defendants do not have standing to contest the search of the plane, we agree that no reasonable jury could have concluded…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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