Legal Opinion
United States v. Bennie Dean Herring, Billy Clyde Herring, Ronald Mills, and Dee Dee Bell
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 17, 1991No. 90-7280PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge:
Appellants Bennie Dean Herring, Billy Clyde Herring, Ronald Mills, and Dee Dee Bell were convicted for their complicity iñ a conspiracy to sell a device (known as a VideoCipherll or VCII) that when modified descrambles satellite pay-television transmissions. Informants and undercover agents of the United States Customs Service entered Tri-State Satellites in Brun-didge, Alabama, in December of 1987 and recorded various transactions in which several appellants indicated that they modified the VCIFs so that the devices would de-scramble satellite pay-television signals. The…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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