UNITED STATES v. DE LA TORRE

No. 78-5608.

605 F.2d 154 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rick DE LA TORRE and Ben Garcia, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 18, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph S. Chagra, Charles Louis Roberts, El Paso, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Leroy Morgan Jahn, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, CLARK and GEE, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Appellants De la Torre and Garcia were indicted on four counts charging conspiracies to import and possess cocaine and conspiracies to import and possess marijuana. They were convicted on one count of conspiracy to import marijuana and acquitted on the other three counts.

De la Torre was vice president of a bank in El Paso, Texas, and Garcia was a public relations representative of Loyola Marymount University in California. They were mutual...

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