Legal Opinion
United States v. Alfred Joseph Samango
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 13, 1979No. 78-2297PublishedCited by 135 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EAST, District Judge:
The Government appeals from an order dismissing a Superseding Indictment returned by a federal Grand Jury for the District of Hawaii on December 19, 1977. 1 We affirm.
GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS
On May 5, 1975, Dionisia Ferrer arrived in Honolulu from Tahiti with 13V2 pounds of cocaine concealed in the false bottoms of two suitcases. On August 29,1975, she was indicted. The grand jury, after indicting Ferrer, took further testimony on possible drug smuggling conspiracies but failed to return indictments for conspiracy. As part of this continuing investigation, Samango appeared…
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