United States v. Eduardo Poeta

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Eduardo Poeta, found to be a central participant in an international heroin smuggling operation, appeals from a judgment of March 19, 1971 in the Eastern District sentencing him to imprisonment for 40 years and fines totalling $300,000, 1 following his conviction by a jury on 14 counts of illegally importing and distributing heroin in the United States, 21 U.S.C. §§ 173 and 174, and one count of conspiring to do so.

Poeta’s only claims of error relate to the admission of two conversations intercepted on July 10 and 11, 1970 over the telephone of his co-defendant Luis…