UNITED STATES v. CANIESO

No. 262, Docket 72-1789.

470 F.2d 1224 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Domingo S. CANIESO and Siu Tsien Chou, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis J. Sheerin, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Robert A. Morse, U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., and L. Kevin Sheridan, Asst. U. S. Atty., of counsel), for appellee.

Mark A. Landsman, Brooklyn, N. Y., for appellant Chou.

William H. Sperling, Kew Gardens, N. Y., (Richard A. Levy, Kew Gardens, N. Y., of counsel), for appellant Canieso.

Before FRIENDLY, Chief Judge, MEDINA and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Chief Judge:

Domingo S. Canieso, a Philippine diplomat assigned to that country's embassy in Laos, and Siu Tsien Chou, a Chinese national, appeal from their well-merited conviction of conspiring to import approximately thirty-four pounds of almost pure heroin from Southeast Asia into the United States and related offenses. Both appellants challenge the judge's ruling, at a pretrial suppression hearing, which sustained the validity of their arrests and the...

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