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U.S. v. SMITH

No. 87-3158.

840 F.2d 886 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis SMITH, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 25, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Crompton, Tampa, Fla., for defendant-appellant.

Robert W. Merkle, U.S. Atty., Terry Furr, Robert T. Kennedy, Asst. U.S. Attys., Tampa, Fla., Mervyn Hamburg, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Crim. Div., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HILL and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

This case concerns a direct appeal from a criminal conviction. On October 31, 1986, Dennis Smith flew from Newark, N.J. to the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport in Florida. At the airport, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents, acting on information received from a Newark DEA agent, stopped Smith after he deplaned. Smith eventually handed over an envelope containing 60 vials of crack cocaine to the DEA agents.

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