UNITED STATES v. CAMBINDO VALENCIA

Nos. 759 to 763, 765, 766, 770, 771 and 840 to 842, Dockets 78-1364 and 78-1438 to 78-1448.

609 F.2d 603 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jose Esteban CAMBINDO VALENCIA, Jose Manuel Escobar Orjuella, Federico Gonzalez, Alfonso Velasco, Mario Caicedo, Edgar Enrique Moreno Ortiz, Julio Francisco Bermudez Prado, Rafael Flores Valencia, Carmen Vivas Freddie Williams, Jesus Losada, and Rosalinda Losada, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 12, 1979.

On Rehearing January 10, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna Claire Pendergast, Philip S. Greene, Houston, Tex., for appellant Jose Esteban Cambindo Valencia.

Irving Katcher, New York City, for appellant Jose Manuel Escobar Orjuella.

Charles E. Clayman, New York City, Dawson, Kimelman & Clayman, New York City, for appellant Federico Gonzalez.

Jonathan J. Silbermann, New York City, Federal Defender Services Unit, Legal Aid Society, for appellant Alfonso Velasco.

Albert A. Gaudelli, Flushing, N. Y., for appellant Mario Caicedo.

Theodore Krieger, New York City, for appellant Edgar Enrique Moreno Ortiz.

Julius M. Wasserstein, Lasher & Wasserstein, New York City, for appellant Julio Francisco Bermudez Prado.

Maurice Brill, New York City, for appellant Rafael Flores Valencia.

Michael Ira Asen, New York City, for appellant Carmen Vivas.

Raphael F. Scotto, New York City, for appellant Freddie Williams.

F. Louis Caraballo, Brooklyn, N. Y., for appellant Jesus Losada.

Michael G. Dowd, Kew Gardens, N. Y., for appellant Rosalinda Losada.

Barry E. Schulman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y. (Edward R. Korman, U. S. Atty., for the Eastern Dist. of New York, Harvey M. Stone, Mary McGowan Davis, Diane F. Giacalone, Vivian Shevitz, Asst. U. S. Attys., Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for appellee.

Before OAKES and GURFEIN, Circuit Judges, and PIERCE, District Judge.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from convictions of ten defendants for conspiracy to commit narcotics offenses (Count I, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 963), from convictions of several for the commission of substantive narcotics offenses (Counts II-X, XII-XIII, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 960), and from a conviction of one defendant, Jose Esteban Cambindo Valencia (Cambindo),1 for conducting a "continuing criminal enterprise" (Count...

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