U.S. v. MIRANDA

No. 86-5266.

835 F.2d 830 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jesus Ismael MIRANDA, J.M. Seafood, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 15, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Sohn, Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Leon B. Kellner, U.S. Atty., Judy K. Hunt, David O. Leiwant, Sonia Escobio O'Donnell, Linda Collins Hertz, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before JOHNSON and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, Senior District Judge.


JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

This is a not so long opinion about "shorts." Jesus Ismael Miranda with his company, J.M. Seafood, Inc., and Mario Gonzalez with his company, Mario Seafood Company, were convicted of conspiring in Florida to sell undersized spiny lobster tails, also known as "shorts."1 We are asked to consider four issues.

I. Sufficiency of the Evidence

Appellants Miranda and J.M. Seafood contest the sufficiency...

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