UNITED STATES v. ACOSTA

No. 84-1205.

763 F.2d 671 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Manuel ACOSTA, Bobby Ray Weempe, Trinidad Aranda, Maria Aranda, Clarence Reynolds, Frankie Cooper, Billy Mel Alford, Donna Alford and Herbert Arney, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 6, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Christenson, Odessa, Tex., (court-appointed), for Bobby Weempe.

Vince D'Angelo, Albuquerque, N.M., for Trinidad Aranda & Maria Aranda & Manuel Acosta.

Clarence Reynolds, pro se.

James H. Anderson, Dallas, Tex., for Clarence Reynolds.

Lucien B. Campbell, Federal Public Defender, Kevin E. Shannon, Asst. Federal Public Defender, El Paso, Tex., for Frankie Cooper.

James H. Anderson, Dallas, Tex., for Reynolds, Billy Mel Alford, Herbert Arney and Donna Alford.

Mervyn Hamburg, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., plaintiff-appellee.

Before GOLDBERG, RUBIN and HILL, Circuit Judges.


ROBERT MADDEN HILL, Circuit Judge:

The appellants comprise nine of sixteen defendants convicted in the federal district court in the Western District of Texas on one or more counts of an eleven-count indictment. Count 1 charged all defendants with conspiracy to possess in excess of 1000 pounds of marijuana with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and Counts 2 through 11 charged various combinations1 of the alleged...

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