Legal Opinion
United States v. Oscar Mancillas and Charles Lowry
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 25, 1978No. 77-1503, 77-1507PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PELL, Circuit Judge.
Defendants-appellants Oscar Mancillas and Charles Lowry were convicted by a jury of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846, and of possessing slightly less than a kilogram of heroin with intent to distribute it, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Claudio A. Davalos and Saul Aveytia were indicted codefendants on the conspiracy and possession counts, and were charged in a separate count with possessing in excess of four kilograms of heroin with intent to distribute it. Aveytia, who was a fugitive from…
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