Legal Opinion
United States v. Acosta
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 6, 1985No. 84-1205PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERT MADDEN HILL, Circuit Judge:
The appellants comprise nine of sixteen defendants convicted in the federal district court in the Western District of Texas on one or more counts of an eleven-count indictment. Count 1 charged all defendants with conspiracy to possess in excess of 1000 pounds of marijuana with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and Counts 2 through 11 charged various combinations1 of the alleged coconspirators with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1).
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2Cases cited44 opinions
- United States v. NixonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Pinkerton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- United States v. Orange Jell BeechumCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- United States v. Nelson BellCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1952
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3Cited by56 opinions
- United States v. Ben Lee Basey, Armando Jose Lopez, and Oscar Quirarte Ponce, DefendantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1987
- United States v. Samuel Duncan, Jr., Grace Duncan, Gay Nell Duncan, Marshall Sutton, Angela F. Turner, Arthur D. Wilson, and Oscar L. WilsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1991
- United States v. LindellCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989
- United States v. Louis Edward Henry, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1989
- United States v. Stephen F. Ellender, Jim Swope, Roger Dale Collins, and Jim Bourgeois, United States of America v. Carl TangrediCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1991
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