UNITED STATES v. CRUZ

No. 76-3527.

559 F.2d 300 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Guillermo Rhodes CRUZ, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 16, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gustavo Acevedo, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Laredo, Tex., Roland E. Dahlin, II, Federal Public Defender, Karen K. Friedman, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Houston, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

James R. Gough, U. S. Atty., Mary L. Sinderson, George A. Kelt, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., Houston, Tex., Rene Gonzalez, Asst. U. S. Atty., Laredo, Tex., James R. Gough, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before COLEMAN, Circuit Judge, KUNZIG, Judge, and GEE, Circuit Judge.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Appellant was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens and with three counts of transporting illegal aliens in violation of 8 U.S.C. §§ 1324(a), 1324(a)(2), and 18 U.S.C. § 371. He was sentenced to four concurrent two-year terms.1 On appeal, he complains of the district court's failure to suppress all testimony of and about the illegal aliens as fruit of the poisonous tree because...

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