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UNITED STATES v. CADENA

No. 77-5395.

585 F.2d 1252 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nino Rinsi CADENA, Pedro A. Ballesteros Esquebel, Gilberto Yepes Borjas, Cesar Dela Rosa, Narciso Barba Cadena, Daniel Garcia Gomez, Efrain Carreazo Cardales, Pedro Ruiz Arrieta, Jorge Lopez Wagner, Nicanor Rivera Diaz, Alajandro Valle Mantaress, Andres Gomez Ortega, and Francisco M. Ceba Bruno, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Carlton, Jr., Thomas A. Wills, Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Jack V. Eskenazi, U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., Michael P. Sullivan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Mervyn Hamburg, Atty., Appellate Section, Crim. Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SKELTON, Senior Judge, and FAY and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing Denied January 16, 1979. See 588 F.2d 100.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

At the heart of this case lies the question: May the United States Coast Guard validly board a foreign vessel carrying contraband intended for delivery to this country while the vessel is in international waters, arrest its crew for conspiracy to violate the laws of the United States, and seize its cargo? Like the seas where the vessel was...

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