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UNITED STATES v. SAMANGO

Cr. No. 77-01091.

450 F.Supp. 1097 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Alfred Joseph SAMANGO, Joe Cerda Avila, Sergio Avila, Stephen James Granat, Mark Stephenson Haller, Jr., Gale Lee Leone, Roger Locke, Ronald Petersen, Joy Merlene Chaban, Toni Denise Lowen, and Stephen Chula, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Hawaii.

May 16, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Eggers, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Harold M. Fong, U. S. Atty., D. Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiff.

David C. Schutter, Schutter, O'Brien & Weinberg, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Alfred J. Samango.

F. Lee Bailey, Boston, Mass., for defendant Joe Cerda Avila.

Robert L. Shapiro, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Sergio Avila.

Max Nakata Garcia, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Stephen James Granat.

Paul McCarthy, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Mark Stephenson Haller, Jr.

Michael D. Hong, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Gale Lee Leone.

David Bettencourt, Brown & Bettencourt, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Roger Locke.

George W. Dixon, Tacoma, Wash., for defendant Ronald Petersen.

John A. Hoskins, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Joy Merlene Chaban.

Wayne Luke, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Toni Denise Lowen.

Stephen D. Quinn, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Stephen Chula.

SAMUEL P. KING, Chief Judge.

DECISION ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS INDICTMENT

I.

On May 5, 1975, Dionisia Ferrer arrived in Honolulu from Tahiti apparently with thirteen and one-half pounds of cocaine concealed in the false bottoms of her two suitcases. Airport customs officials seized the suitcases, touching off an investigation which three grand juries, two indictments, and eleven defendants later brings before me a motion to quash the second, superseding...

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