Legal Opinion
United States v. Jose Efrain Toro, Jr., Michael F. Pickel, Jack Peoples, Mario De La Pava and Robert Edwin Brunk, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 3, 1988No. 87-2117PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
Appellants challenge on numerous grounds their convictions for violating federal narcotics laws. We AFFIRM.
BACKGROUND 1
On January 8, 1985, DEA agent Michael Spasaro drove to a Houston hotel where he was introduced by a confidential informant to defendant Pickel. Pickel understood that Spasaro was a large-scale drug trafficker with sufficient resources to put together a cocaine laboratory. Pickel informed Spasaro that he represented wealthy individuals who were interested in getting into the cocaine business and building a cocaine laboratory. Spasaro advised…
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