Legal Opinion

United States v. Juan Miguel Lopez-Escobar

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided January 3, 1991No. 89-8088PublishedCited by 38 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

Juan Miguel Lopez-Escobar appeals a conviction entered on an adverse jury verdict for importation of marijuana into the United States from Mexico (Count One, 21 U.S.C. § 952(a)) and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute (Count Two, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)). We affirm.

I

In June 1989, United States Border Patrol agents Benjamin Poncedeleon and One-simo Gonzalez were patrolling Texas Highway 20 about four miles east of Fort Hancock, Texas. They saw a blue Chevrolet van turn onto Highway 20 from a levee road leading from the Rio Grande. Because the driver…

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