Legal Opinion
United States v. Henry Alberto Gomez-Ruiz
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 2, 1991No. 89-1573PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Chief Judge.
Customs agents found seven kilograms of cocaine in a suitcase on board an airplane that landed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on its way from Bogota, Colombia, to Madrid, Spain. A jury subsequently convicted Henry Alberto Gomez-Ruiz, the apparent owner, of three separate crimes: 1) unlawfully importing cocaine into the United States; 2) unlawfully possessing cocaine with intent to distribute; and 3) possessing, on board an aircraft arriving in the United States, cocaine that is not listed in the aircraft’s “manifest.” See 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 841(a) and 955. Gomez-Ruiz appeals,…
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