United States v. Carl Anthony Wuco, United States of America v. Timothy W. Sant Agata

OPINION

Before SMITH * and GOODWIN, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, ** District Judge. J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Sant Agata and Wuco, convicted on trial to the court, jury waived, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Robert Firth, Judge, of importation and possession with intent to distribute of “approximately 1,010 pounds of marijuana, a substance containing approximately 10 pounds of tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-9-THC), a schedule I controlled substance,” appeal on grounds relating to the government’s course in drafting the charges and managing the…