UNITED STATES v. GUSTAVO DIAZ-SEGOVIA

Crim. A. No. N-78-0307.

457 F.Supp. 260 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America v. Gustavo DIAZ-SEGOVIA, Francisco Diaz, William P. Trolinger, III, a/k/a Patrick W. Connors, a/k/a Concho, Michael S. Breiding, a/k/a Michael Brandon, a/k/a Pat Connors, William Troy, a/k/a William R. Gregg, Robert Palm, Paul Friedman, Fred Fillingham, Alfonso J. Joseph, John Connelly, John B. Lanham, III, April L. Jacobs, Larry G. Van Dyke and Virginia Lanham.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

August 29, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell T. Baker, Jr., U. S. Atty., D. Md., and Catherine C. Blake, Kurt L. Schmoke, Asst. U. S. Attys., Baltimore, Md., for the Government.

J. Flowers Mark, Alexandria, Va., and John P. Coale, Washington, D. C., for defendant Trolinger.

Paul G. Evans, Baltimore, Md., for defendant Breiding.

Myron L. Wolfson, Towson, Md., and James M. Lowe, Alexandria, Va., for defendant Troy.

Bruce Armstrong, Washington, D. C., for defendant Joseph.

Thomas J. Morgan, Miami, Fla., for defendant Connelly.

John Kenneth Zwerling, Alexandria, Va., for defendant John Lanham.

Marvin Miller, Alexandria, Va., for defendant Jacobs.

Frank A. Mika, Washington, D. C., for defendant Van Dyke.


NORTHROP, Chief Judge.

The United States has charged various of these defendants with conspiracy to violate several laws outlawing the trafficking in marijuana. On August 14 and 15, 1978, this Court held evidentiary hearings on defense motions to suppress evidence seized by government agents. The relevant facts relating to these seizures are summarized below.

I. Facts

In May 1978, Agent Boyce Blume of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA...

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