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UNITED STATES v. WILLIS

No. 79-321.

476 F.Supp. 201 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America v. Clyde P. WILLIS, Jr., Robert H. Love and Christopher R. Pieser.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

August 24, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald A. Fonseca, Asst. U.S. Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-petitioner.

Louis B. Merhige, New Orleans, La., for defendants; Andrew C. Pavlick, Miami, Fla., of counsel.

DUPLANTIER, District Judge.

After an evidentiary hearing, the court denied defendants' motion to suppress as evidence approximately fifteen tons of marijuana seized by Coast Guard personnel from the fish hold of a fishing vessel being operated by the three defendants.

At approximately 1:00 A.M. on June 20, 1979, a boarding party from the Coast Guard cutter "Point Sal" boarded the fishing boat "Seaman Blues" at a point about 43 miles from the Louisiana shore...

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