Legal Opinion
United States v. Juan Gilberto Medina and Benito Vega-Garza
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 6, 1989No. 88-2800PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
Defendants Juan Gilberto Medina and Benito Vega-Garza appeal their convictions for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marihuana and possession with intent to distribute marihuana. We affirm.
At about 6:00 p.m. in December of 1987, two United States Border Patrol Agents, Richard Halverson and Thomas Miller were on line watch duty 1 in the Madero area of the Rio Grande River. As the agents were driving along a paved road located approximately 800 yards north of the Rio Grande River, they observed a blue van travelling on an elevated levee road that runs alongside…
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