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UNITED STATES v. JIMINEZ

No. 73-1575 Summary Calendar.

484 F.2d 91 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Maria Lydia JIMINEZ, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 10, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore J. Sakowitz, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Miami, Fla. (court appointed not under the act), for defendant-appellant.

Robert W. Rust, U. S. Atty., Robert C. Byrne, Asst. U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, AINSWORTH and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Maria Lydia Jiminez got caught by customs officials at the Miami, Florida, port of entry as she attempted to enter this country with a false passport and 1131 grams of cocaine sewn into the lining of the panties she was wearing. Her story on the witness stand was that she had no knowledge that the narcotic was in her underwear. She described a hospital contact in her native Columbia in which a stranger, upon learning...

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