UNITED STATES v. CORONA

No. 86-5287.

804 F.2d 1568 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ray L. CORONA and Rafael L. Corona, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald I. Bierman, Benedict P. Kuehne, Bierman, Sonnett, Shohat & Sale, P.A., Theodore Klein, Charles Auslander, Fine, Jacobson, Schwartz, Nash, Block & England, Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Leon B. Kellner, U.S. Atty., Thomas A. Blair, Asst. U.S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before VANCE and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and PITTMAN, Senior District Judge.


CORRECTED OPINION

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

The issue in this case is whether retrial of the defendants following a hung jury violates the double jeopardy clause when there has been a superseding indictment which expands upon the original charges. We hold that there is no violation of the double jeopardy clause.

Defendants Ray Corona and Rafael Corona were charged in the original indictment with numerous...

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