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UNITED STATES v. PEREIRA-PINEDA

Nos. 83-2069, 83-2078 Summary Calendar.

721 F.2d 137 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Leonel PEREIRA-PINEDA, a/k/a Jose Luis Morales-Trevino, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 28, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Herter, Houston, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

James R. Gough, John M. Potter, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, TATE and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Defendant appeals separate convictions on several counts of transporting undocumented aliens within the United States. In this consolidated appeal, he asserts that because the aliens he was transporting were citizens of El Salvador the aliens had a right to (and did) apply for political asylum in the United States, and that, thus, the Government could not prove an essential element of its burden of proof, that...

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