Legal Opinion
United States v. Eligio Fermin Rivero
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 28, 1976No. 75-1577PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:
Rivero’s appeal from his conviction of attempting to distribute approximately 11 kilos — nearly 22 pounds — of cocaine 1 (Count I) and the dependent but distinguishable crime of unlawfully carrying a firearm during the commission of a federal felony (Count II) 2 turns to a great extent on the admissibility of evidence of a relatively miniscule 2 grams of cocaine, one of the precise crimes charged in an earlier indictment which was dismissed with prejudice 3 by the Government prior to the return of the indictment in the case now before us.
Rivero attacks these…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Benton v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Serfass v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Sealfon v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- United States v. CoxCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
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3Cited by43 opinions
- United States v. Jack Moody Stricklin, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- United States v. KopitukCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
- United States v. Jay Lewis Dworken, A/K/A Jason Lewis, Jay Lewis, United States of America v. William S. Gay, United States of America v. Steve RogoveCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1988
- United States v. Lam Kwong-Wah, United States of America v. Lam Kwong-Wah, United States of America v. Lam Kwong-WahCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1991
- United States v. Ivan Melchor Moreno and Rigoberto Melchor MorenoCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
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