UNITED STATES v. MARSH

No. 82-1888.

747 F.2d 7 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Frederick MARSH, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. Perry, Boston, Mass., by appointment of the Court, with whom David M. Roseman, Casner, Edwards & Roseman, John Russell, Herlihy & Russell, Raymond Gillespie, Daniel Kelleher, Michael O'Laughlin, Anne Mackin, Stephen Morse, Guterman, Horvitz, Rubin & Rudman, Boston, Mass., and Martin Gideonse, Cambridge, Mass., were on brief, for appellants.

Tobin Harvey, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., with whom William F. Weld, U.S. Atty., and John C. Doherty, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN and ALDRICH, Circuit Judges, and GIGNOUX, Senior District Judge.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal. All of the defendants were found aboard the GRIMURKAMBAN, a 120-foot coastal freighter of Danish registry, which was carrying about 60 tons of marijuana when it was stopped and boarded by the United States Coast Guard on July 14, 1982, in international waters some 270 miles off the northeastern coast of the United States. These defendants, all of whom are citizens of either...

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