Legal Opinion
United States v. Ovidio Camejo, Luis Rivera-Torres, Livingston K. Smith, Luis F. Setien, Raul Anchia
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 22, 1991No. 89-5707PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYER, Senior Circuit Judge:
Five defendants, who were employees of Eastern Airlines, appeal their convictions of conspiracy to import and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. The multiple assertions of error in the trial below do not raise any grounds which require reversal. We affirm the convictions.
BACKGROUND
Ruy Martinez, an Eastern Airlines baggage handler at the Miami International Airport, organized a scheme to smuggle cocaine from Colombia through the use of incoming commercial flights to be off-loaded in Miami. Between 1982 and 1984, large quantities of cocaine loaded into…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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