UNITED STATES v. PINTO-MEJIA

Nos. 1189, 1213, 1194, 1190, 1203, 1191, 1162, 1193, 1192, 1204 and 1195, Dockets 82-1412 to 82-1417, 82-1421 to 82-1424 and 82-1433.

720 F.2d 248 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gsaac Gorge PINTO-MEJIA, Orlando Espinosa Sanchez, Jorge Eliecer Cordoba-Lezcano, Luis Ancizar Castenad-Garjales, Luis Alfonso Barker-Michel, Carlos Osorio-Alvarez, Luis Francisco Mayorga, Jose Felix Angulo-Quinones, Roberto Nunez-Riasco, Blas Enrique Vargas-Rios, Euclidez Vello-Garcia, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 14, 1983.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing February 15, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John N. Villios, Asst. U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Raymond J. Dearie, U.S. Atty., E.D.N.Y., Jane Simkin Smith, Asst. U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Lawrence Hilliard Levner, New York City, for defendant-appellant Pinto-Mejia.

Edward J. Quinn, Brooklyn, N.Y., for defendant-appellant Sanchez.

Michael F. Grossman, New York City, for defendant-appellant Cordoba-Lezcano.

Allen Lashley, Brooklyn, N.Y., for defendant-appellant Castenad-Garjales.

Lawrence J. Gross, Elmhurst, N.Y., for defendant-appellant Barker-Michel.

Richard I. Rosenkranz, Brooklyn, N.Y., for defendant-appellant Osorio-Alvarez.

Joel B. Rudin, New York City (Rudin & Levitt, New York City, on brief), for defendant-appellant Mayorga.

Raphael F. Scotto, Brooklyn, N.Y., for defendant-appellant Angulo-Quinones.

Robert A. Ugelow, Brooklyn, N.Y., for defendant-appellant Nunez-Riasco.

Phylis Skloot Bamberger, New York City (The Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Services Unit, New York, on brief), for defendant-appellant Vargas-Rios.

Philip Katowitz, Brooklyn, N.Y., for defendant-appellant Vello-Garcia.

Before KEARSE, PIERCE and PECK, Circuit Judges.


As Amended on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc February 15, 1984.*

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Defendant Gsaac Gorge Pinto-Mejia and ten codefendants appeal from judgments entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Henry Bramwell, Judge, convicting them of one count of possessing with intent to distribute approximately twenty tons of marijuana on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction...

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