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UNITED STATES v. RUPPEL

No. 80-1962.

666 F.2d 261 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John RUPPEL, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Tipton, Robert W. Ritchie, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant-appellant.

David P. Baugh, Asst. U. S. Atty., Beaumont, Tex., William C. Bryson, Deborah Watson, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the U. S.

Before THORNBERRY, REAVLEY and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 2, 1982.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

On May 1, 1979, the appellant, John Ruppel, was named along with twenty-three others1 in a multi-count indictment returned in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The indictment outlined a scheme in which Ruppel and his coconspirators imported approximately 147,000 pounds of marijuana from Colombia into Texas and arranged...

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