Legal Opinion
United States v. Amado Gonzalez Pena
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 12, 1976No. 76-1900PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYER, Circuit Judge.
Pena was convicted of three counts of uttering and one count of possessing counterfeit obligations of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 472. He raises numerous assignments of error. We affirm.
Pena, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, who had been intermittently living in the United States for a number of years, was apprehended November 6, 1975, in Disney World by its security officials for passing counterfeit $20 bills. A Secret Service agent was called to the scene and advised Pena of his rights with a standard form which was translated into Spanish by a…
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