UNITED STATES v. ESTRADA-LUCAS

No. 78-2618.

651 F.2d 1261 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Blanca ESTRADA-LUCAS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 30, 1980.

As Amended November 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter K. Nunez, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Diego, Cal. (argued), for plaintiff-appellee; William A. Bower, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Diego, Cal., on brief.

Kenneth R. McMullan, San Diego, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

Before SNEED and TANG, Circuit Judges, and PFAELZER, District Judge.


AMENDED OPINION

TANG, Circuit Judge.

Blanca Acevedo1 was charged with violation of 18 U.S.C. § 545, importing merchandise without declaring it. Her first trial ended in a hung jury. Upon retrial to a second jury, she was convicted. On appeal, Acevedo argues that the trial court erred in excluding as evidence at the second trial the fact that she passed a certain polygraph test. The court had admitted the evidence at the...

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