UNITED STATES v. MASRI

No. 75-4432.

547 F.2d 932 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Samih K. MASRI and Wally Ghalayini, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 24, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Almon, Miami, Fla. (court appointed), for Wally Ghalayini.

Bernard S. Yedlin, Miami, Fla., for Samih K. Masri.

Robert W. Rust, U. S. Atty., Samuel A. Alter, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Samuel Sheres, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Karen L. Atkinson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 24, 1977.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

The defendants-appellants, Masri and Ghalayini, where convicted in a joint, non-jury trial of conspiracy to import heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a) & 963 (1970). They assert multiple errors on appeal. Finding each of them either meritless or harmless, we affirm.

I. Sufficiency of the Evidence

Initially, the appellants claim that the...

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