Legal Opinion
United States v. Lewis Davis Michel, Robert Joseph Belmares, John Handy Jones, Daniel Stewart Henshaw and Ted Ray Hines
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 2, 1979No. 77-5518PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
Facts
This case arose out of a two-year scheme to import large quantities of marijuana into the United States from the Republic of Mexico. The scheme, more notable for its spectacular failures than for its successes, was at last brought to a halt by various law enforcement agencies following the importation of two plane loads of marijuana into South Texas from Mexico. Count 1 of the 17-count indictment charged a conspiracy among 19 named defendants and others to acquire marijuana in the Republic of Mexico and to transport it to Dallas, Texas, and other areas of the United…
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