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U.S. v. TORO

No. 87-2117.

840 F.2d 1221 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Efrain TORO, Jr., Michael F. Pickel, Jack Peoples, Mario de la Pava and Robert Edwin Brunk, Jr., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied May 3, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronnie G. Harrison (Court-appointed), Al Harrison, Houston, Tex., for Toro.

Jim Tatum, Houston, Tex., for Pickel.

Darryl G. Campbell, Houston, Tex., for Peoples.

Mervyn Hambur, Atty., Crim. Div., Appellate Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Henry K. Oncken, U.S. Atty., James R. Gough, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for U.S.

Joe L. Hernandez, Houston, Tex. (Court-appointed), for Maria de la Pava.

David Cunningham, Houston, Tex. (Court-appointed), for Robert Edwin Brunk, Jr.

Before GARWOOD, and JONES, Circuit Judges, and HUGHES, District Judge.

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

Appellants challenge on numerous grounds their convictions for violating federal narcotics laws. We AFFIRM.

BACKGROUND1

On January 8, 1985, DEA agent Michael Spasaro drove to a Houston hotel where he was introduced by a confidential informant to defendant Pickel. Pickel understood that Spasaro was a large-scale drug trafficker with sufficient resources...

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