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UNITED STATES v. PHILLIPS

Nos. 79-3189, 80-5320.

664 F.2d 971 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mark Steven PHILLIPS and Richard Elliott Grant, Jr., Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert Jay MEINSTER, a/k/a "Robby", Eugene Arter Myers, a/k/a "Big Gene", Richard Elliott Grant, Jr., Randall Gene Fisher, Modesto Echezarreta-Cruz, Robert Elliot Platshorn, a/k/a "Roger Culpepper", Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B.

December 28, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Brown, Jr., Miami, Fla., Dana D. Biehl, Marvyn Hamburg, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Dennis Cogan, Philadelphia, Pa., for Meinster.

Rebekah J. Poston, Theodore Klein, Miami, Fla., for Myers.

Samuel Sheres, Hollywood, Fla., for Fisher.

Geoffrey C. Fleck, Miami, Fla., for Echezarreta-Cruz.

Thomas G. Murray, Miami, Fla., for Robert Elloit Platshorn.

Before FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and SCOTT, District Judge.

FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judge:

Appellants were members of a marijuana smuggling organization which called itself the "Black Tuna" enterprise. The Black Tuna group imported on a massive scale. According to statements by one appellant, during the period from October 1976 to shortly after September 1977, one of the four years covered by the indictment, the Black Tuna group successfully imported into the United States...

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