Legal Opinion
United States v. Barajas-Chavez
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 25, 2004No. 03-2059PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
In 1995, federal officials detained Martin Barajas-Chavez at a traffic checkpoint near Gallup, New Mexico while he was transporting ten illegal aliens in a pickup truck bound for Colorado. He was subsequently indicted on two counts of transporting illegal aliens from Arizona to New Mexico in violation of federal immigration law. A jury convicted Barajas-Chavez on both counts. The district court set aside the jury verdict on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to support the convictions, but this Court sitting en banc reversed the district court’s décision…
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