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UNITED STATES v. ROMERO-GALUE

No. 84-5365.

757 F.2d 1147 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Francisco ROMERO-GALUE, Alberto Francisco Gomez-Sjogreen, Julio Pedro Martinez, Luis Alberto Abrahams-Webster, Jose Manuel Enciso, Hector Manuel Murillo-Montenegro, Cesar Almeida-Chaparro, Gregorio Torijano-Mendoza and Luis Fernando Arias-Valencia, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 18, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sonia Escobio O'Donnell, Linda Collins-Hertz, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant.

Fernando Heria, Hialeah, Fla., for Almeida-Chaparro.

Maria Rivas Hamar, Miami, Fla., for Torijano-Mendoza.

Alberto J. Ordonez, Miami, Fla., for Encisco.

Isabel Bombino, Miami, Fla., for Romero-Galue.

John D. Lazarus, Miami, Fla., for Martinez.

Manuel Mari, Miami, Fla., for Gomez-Sjogreen.

Leon Tozo, Miami, Fla., for Abrahams-Webster.

Humberto Aguilar, Miami, Fla., for Arias-Valencia.

Before TJOFLAT and VANCE, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, District Judge.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

Section 955a(c) of Title 21 of the United States Code makes it a crime "for any person on board any vessel within the customs waters of the United States to knowingly or intentionally ... possess with intent to ... distribute" marijuana. This appeal questions whether the Congress, in enacting this statute, intended to reach the possession of marijuana by foreigners aboard a foreign vessel on the high seas.1 The...

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