Legal Opinion
George Trujillo v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 11, 1961No. 6740PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Trujillo was found guilty by a jury of illegally receiving and concealing heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C.A. § 174 and was sentenced to a term of 10 years. On this appeal he asserts that illegally seized evidence was used against him.
Two Albuquerque, New Mexico, police officers, Proffer and Torrez, knew Trujillo as a narcotic addict. They had received information from sources which they knew to be reliable and from other sources the reliability of which was unknown to them that he was selling heroin in the Barelas area of Albuquerque. On the day in…
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- Dalton Ezzell Petteway v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1958
3Cited by35 opinions
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