Legal Opinion
United States v. Stacey Lynn Merkt
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 22, 1985No. 84-2401PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Per curiam
A jury instruction that an accused charged with transporting illegal aliens should be found guilty if she had the intention of taking the aliens to an immigration office and knew that the Immigration Service had a closer office to which the aliens might report misstates the elements of the offense.
A jury found Stacey Lynn Merkt guilty of conspiring to transport and move, and transporting and moving, two illegal aliens within the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 371 and 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2). On appeal, Merkt contends that her conviction was based on improper jury instructions…
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