RODRIGUEZ Y PAZ v. UNITED STATES

No. 28997.

473 F.2d 662 (1973)

Pedro Luis RODRIGUEZ Y PAZ et al., Defendants-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 26, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Daniel, Jr., Miami, Fla., for Dulce Espinosa.

Gino P. Negretti, Miami, Fla., for Fernandez, Lum & Echavarry.

James E. Siff, New York City, for Jackson.

Lawrence E. Hoffman, Miami Beach, Fla., for Acosta.

Frank Ragano, Miami, Fla., for Rodriguez y Paz.

Max Kogen, Miami, Fla., for Inchaustegui.

Robert W. Rust, U. S. Atty., J. V. Eskenazi, Asst. U. S. Atty., Neal R. Sonnett, Michael P. Sullivan, Asst. U. S. Attys., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BELL, AINSWORTH and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 26, 1973.

PER CURIAM:

This narcotics case was remanded to the District Court for a limited post-trial hearing on the issue of whether there is or is not a reasonable possibility that the verdict of the jury was affected by the presence in the jury room, on the last day of taking testimony, of two books that were not in evidence. The books concerned drug traffic, drug problems, and people involved in drugs. The factual...

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