Legal Opinion
United States v. Diaz
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 4, 2011No. 10-10544PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:
Carlos Joel Diaz was convicted after a jury trial of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. He appeals and alleges error as to restrictions placed on cross-examination, on alleged opinion testimony about his mental state, and on a clear but corrected error in a jury instruction. He also asserts that the evidence was insufficient and his sentence was substantively unreasonable. We AFFIRM.
STATEMENT OF FACTS
On the evening of April 18, 2007, in Dallas, Texas, two undercover agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency…
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