U.S. v. KAUFMAN

No. 87-1462.

858 F.2d 994 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Steven Warren KAUFMAN, a/k/a John Rayford, Leonard Joseph Kissell, James Gregory Smith, Perry Franks and Paddy D. Franks, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 17, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald G. Guyer, San Antonio, Tex. (court-appointed), for Steve W. kaufman.

Martha Dickey, Austin, Tex. (court-appointed), for James Gregory Smith.

Michael E. Tigar, Austin, Tex. (court-appointed), for Perry Franks & Paddy D. Franks.

Charles O. Grigson, San Antonio, Austin, Tex. (court-appointed), for Kissell.

Helen M. Eversberg, LeRoy Morgan Jahn, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Louis M. Fischer, Appellate Sect., Crim. Div., Washington, D.C., James H. DeAtley, Asst. U.S. Atty., Austin, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KING, JOHNSON and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

This consolidated appeal concerns five of fourteen individuals indicted for attempting to bring marijuana into the United States. The appellants raise numerous objections to their drug-possession and conspiracy convictions, including, inter alia, assertions that the evidence was insufficient to support certain convictions, that certain evidence was inadmissible, and that the trials of some of the defendants should have been severed...

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