Legal Opinion
United States v. Sharon Cook
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 18, 1988No. 87-5285PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:
Sharon Cook appeals her sentence, imposed by the district court pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 960(b)(2)(B)(ii) (Supp. IV 1986), of imprisonment for a minimum of five years without parole in addition to a term of supervised release of at least four years. She argues that her sentence violates the eighth amendment. We affirm.
I
On April 7, 1987, after a brief trip to Tijuana, Mexico, Cook was arrested at the pedestrian Customs Port of Entry as she was reentering the United States. Under the girdle she was wearing were two large packages containing 1882 grams of 87%…
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