UNITED STATES v. MAGDANIEL-MORA

No. 83-5008.

746 F.2d 715 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ruben MAGDANIEL-MORA, Henny Dekom, Ibrahim Nunez, Francisco Vicente-Leon and Felix Calvo-Castillo, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis G. Kainen, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Miami, Fla., for Magdaniel-Mora and Dekom.

Raymond J. Takiff, Coconut Grove, Fla., for Nunez.

Roberto Martinez, Linda Collins Hertz, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, Fla., for U.S.

Mark King Leban, Miami, Fla., for Vicente-Leon and Calvo-Castillo.

Before RONEY and VANCE, Circuit Judges, and SIMPSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 4, 1985.

VANCE, Circuit Judge:

For most people, being stranded for several days aboard a disabled fishing boat in the Gulf of Mexico twenty miles northwest of Grand Cayman Island would constitute a misfortune of epic proportions.1 The travails of appellants in this case, however, began in earnest only when a boarding party from the Coast Guard...

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