Legal Opinion
United States v. Jose Giliatt Gomez-Gomez, Pedro Vasquez-Castro, Luis Armando Rios-Rico, Nestor Villalobos-Lorduiz, Thomas Charley Snow
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 2, 1987No. 86-5328PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Circuit Judge:
Jose Gilliatt Gomez-Gomez, Pedro Vasquez-Castro, Luis Armando Rios-Rico, Nestor Villalobos-Lorduiz, and Thomas Charley Snow appeal their convictions and sen- fences resulting from drug smuggling. We affirm.
On May 21, 1985, the Coast Guard cutter Escape was patrolling the high seas near Key West when it spotted the yacht Alpha. 1 The Alpha was approximately 40-feet long, in poor condition and riding bow down in the water. After the government of Venezuela denied the Alpha’s claim to Venezuelan registry, the Coast Guard decided to board her as a stateless vessel.
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