U.S. v. MORA

Nos. 87-1412, 87-1419, 87-1428 and 87-1861.

845 F.2d 233 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lazaro MORA, Defendant-Appellant, UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose DUARTE, Defendant-Appellant, UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ruben FORCADE, Defendant-Appellant, UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carlos AMADOR, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

April 25, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter John Orsi, Wichita, Kan., for defendants-appellants.

Robin D. Fowler, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Benjamin L. Burgess, Jr., U.S. Atty., with him on the briefs), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LOGAN and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and BRATTON, District Judge.


LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

Defendants Lazaro Mora, Jose Duarte, Ruben Forcade, and Carlos Amador were tried jointly and convicted of distributing cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and conspiracy to distribute cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. Although defendants' appeals were argued separately, their contentions overlap considerably, and we dispose of all the appeals in this opinion.

All four defendants advance the following arguments...

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