United States v. Josephine Cordero, Etc., United States of America v. William Sorren, A/K/A Bill

BREYER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, Josephine Cordero and William Sorren, were convicted for conspiracy to import cocaine into the customs territory of the United States, 21 U.S.C. §§ 952 1 , 963 2 , and of unlawfully using interstate communications facilities to facilitate that conspiracy, 21 U.S.C. § 843(b). 3 The evidence, which in this appeal we view in a light most favorable to the government— United States v. Stubbert, 655 F.2d 453, 455-56 (1st Cir. 1981)—suggests the following basic facts. Beginning in late 1978 and thereafter Felix Jimenez, a Drug Enforcement Administration undercover…