UNITED STATES v. MAHONEY

No. 74-1578.

507 F.2d 1064 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James M. MAHONEY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 25, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph W. Rinehart, Tampa, Fla., for defendant-appellant.

John L. Briggs, U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., Oscar Blasingame, Claude Tison, Jr., Terry Smiljanich, Asst. U. S. Attys., Tampa, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and BELL and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This appeal is from a conviction on charges involving marijuana importation offenses. Appellant was one of a group charged but was given a separate trial.1

One principal assignment of error is that appellant was entrapped as a matter of law by the government's use of a pilot-informer. The arrangements to import large quantities of marijuana were well underway by the time the pilot was employed. It happened that the...

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