UNITED STATES v. SORIANO

No. 72-1520.

497 F.2d 147 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Rafael SORIANO, Angel Aviles, Domingo Colon, Alfredo Aviles, Edward Arroyo, Alfredo Jose Mazza, Marta Sierra, Ana Rose Betancourt and Jack Marsh, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 15, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Rust, U. S. Atty., Michael P. Sullivan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., Mervyn Hamburg, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Arthur Massey, Miami, Fla., for Rafael Soriano and Edward Arroyo.

James J. Hogan, Alan E. Weinstein, Miami Beach, Fla., for Angel Aviles.

Albert Krieger, New York City, for Alfredo Aviles and Edward Arroyo.

Julia Ferrer, Miami, Fla., for Alfredo Jose Mazza.

Philip Vitello, Coral Gables, Fla., for Jack Marsh.

Gino Negretti, Miami, Fla., for Domingo Colon.

Gross & Krause, Maynard A. Gross, Miami, Fla., for Marta Sierra and Ana Rose Betancourt.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and WISDOM, GEWIN, BELL, THORNBERRY, COLEMAN, GOLDBERG, AINSWORTH, GODBOLD, DYER, SIMPSON, MORGAN, CLARK, RONEY and GEE, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

The United States appeals1 from suppression of evidence obtained in searches of a house and of three suitcases. We adopt the panel opinion insofar as it reverses the trial court's suppression of the fruits of the house search.2 Further consideration persuades us, however, to a somewhat different view than that of the panel and the court below toward suppression of the fruits of the suitcase...

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