Legal Opinion
United States v. Beckford
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided March 28, 1997No. Criminal 3:96CR66-01, 3:96CR66-05, 3:96CR66-06, and 3:96CR66-07PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
PAYNE, District Judge.
Defendants Dean Anthony Beckford, Claude Gerald' Dennis, Leonel Romeo Caza-co, and Richard Anthony Thomas have been charged in the Superseding Indictment with intentional murder in furtherance of a Continuing Criminal Enterprise in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 848(e). Pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 848(h), the Government has notified each defendant that it intends to seek a penalty of death in the event of conviction and has posited with specificity the statutory and non-statutory aggravating factors which it will seek to prove as the basis for imposition of the…
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