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UNITED STATES v. MEJIAS

Nos. 562-566, 609-610, Dockets 76-1384 to 76-1389, 76-1395.

552 F.2d 435 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Rev. Alberto MEJIAS, a/k/a Rev. Angel Ortiz, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 10, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Q. Carey, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., Nathaniel H. Akerman, Frederick T. Davis and Audrey Strauss, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York City, on the brief), for appellee.

Ivan S. Fisher, New York City, for appellant Francisco Salazar Cadena, and John A. Ciampa, New York City, for appellant Rev. Alberto Mejias (Jeffrey D. Ullman and Edward M. Chikofsky, New York City, on the brief).

Jonathan J. Silberman, New York City (William J. Gallagher, The Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Services Unit, New York City, on the brief), for appellant Manuel Francisco Padilla Martinez.

Stuart R. Shaw, New York City, for appellant Henry Cifuentes-Rojas.

Donald E. Nawi, New York City, for appellants Estella Navas, Mario Navas and Jose Ramirez-Rivera (Howard L. Jacobs, New York City, on the brief for appellant Estella Navas, Stokamer & Epstein and Michael P. Stokamer, New York City, on the brief for appellant Mario Navas, Abraham Solomon, New York City, on the brief for appellant Jose Ramirez-Rivera).

Before LUMBARD and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges, and COFFRIN, District Judge.

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Alberto Mejias, Mario Navas, Estella Navas, Henry Cifuentes-Rojas, Jose Ramirez-Rivera, Manuel Francisco Padilla Martinez and Francisco Salazar Cadena appeal from convictions and sentences entered July 30, 1976 after a five-and-one-half week jury trial before Judge Carter in the Southern District. All appellants were convicted of conspiring to violate the federal narcotics laws between 1973 and 1974. Mario and Estella Navas, Mejias and Rojas...

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