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U.S. v. RAMOS

No. 87-1473.

840 F.2d 1 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Refugio RAMOS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 29, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arvel R. Ponton, III, El Paso, Tex., (court appointed), for defendant-appellant.

LeRoy Morgan Jahn, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Andrew Levchuk, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and REAVLEY, Circuit Judge, and HUNTER, District Judge.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

Jose Refugio Ramos appeals his conviction on two counts of unlawfully selling documentary evidence of citizenship in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1427. We affirm.

I.

On June 25, 1986 Ramos agreed to obtain and sell, for $500, citizenship documents to Thomas Silva, a special agent of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service posing as an illegal alien. After obtaining the birth certificate of Luis Armando Montoya...

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