United States v. Alberto Llanes

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

Appellant was convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, after trial before Cannella, J., and a jury, of receiving, concealing and facilitating the transportation and concealment of approximately twenty one grams of illegally imported heroin, knowing the drug to have been illegally imported, in violation of 21 U.S. C. §§ 173, 174. The case of a codefend-ant, Pino, charged in another count of the same indictment with a related violation of these sections, was ordered severed before appellant’s trial began. Though Pino was called…