Legal Opinion
United States v. Solis
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 6, 2002No. 99-41490PublishedCited by 191 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
This appeal arises from a 36-count indictment of 29 defendants for conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine in Plano, Texas and individual violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Eleven defendants went to trial, ten were convicted of conspiracy and various individual drug offenses, and nine — Jose Cleotide Solis, Ec-liserio Martinez Garcia, Salvador Pineda Contreras, Francisco Favela, Alfonzo Meza, Arturo Meza, Hilario Merlán Solis, Aurelio Mendez, and Jose Alberto Meza— now appeal their convictions and sentences.
I. Factual background
In September 1997, a…
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