U.S. v. AGUILAR

Nos. 86-1208 to 86-1215.

871 F.2d 1436 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Maria del Socorro Pardo Viuda de AGUILAR, Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Anthony CLARK, a/k/a Antonio Clark, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sister Darlene NICGORSKI, School Sisters of Saint Francis, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Philip M. WILLIS-CONGER, a/k/a Phillip M. Conger, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John M. FIFE, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Margaret Jean HUTCHISON, a/k/a Peggy Hutchison, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wendy LeWIN, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ramon Dagoberto QUINONES, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 30, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen L. Snell, Dennis P. Riordan, Riordan & Rosenthal, San Francisco, Cal., Michael Tigar, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Tex., Michael L. Altman, Silverglate, Gertner, Boston, Mass., for defendants-appellants.

Donald M. Reno, Jr., Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., Seattle, Wash., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HALL, WIGGINS and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:

Appellants were convicted of masterminding and running a modern-day underground railroad that smuggled Central American natives across the Mexican border with Arizona.1 Beginning in Mexico, various appellants directed illegal aliens to several Arizona churches that operated as self-described sanctuaries. From Arizona, appellants sent many of these illegal aliens to Chicago, Illinois, where they were...

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