United States v. Pawel Zygmunt Szymaniak

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal, from a judgment after a jury trial, entered October 11,1990, in the Northern District of New York, Con. G. Cholakis, District Judge, convicting appellant of one count of attempted transportation of an alien within the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(B) (1988).

On February 26, 1990, Szymaniak entered the United States from Canada and, shortly thereafter, was arrested for attempted transportation of an alien. He was advised of his rights pursuant to Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966). At trial, a government agent testified, on…