Legal Opinion
United States v. Manuel Ricardo Garcia and Niceforo Gutierrez-Saenz
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 21, 1976No. 75--3543PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is the story of a pound of heroin which swam the Rio Grande and sent four men to prison. Two pleaded guilty. Two others were tried and convicted. They appeal. We affirm as to both appellants.
Gutierrez-Saenz [Saenz] and Garcia were convicted of possessing heroin with intent to distribute and of conspiring to possess heroin intending to distribute it, 21 U.S.C., §§ 841(a)(1) and 846. The overt act charged in the conspiracy count was the delivery of approximately seventeen ounces of heroin on or about May 6, 1975. Garcia was also convicted of carrying a firearm during…
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