U.S. v. WILLIAMS

No. 89-3494.

900 F.2d 823 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James WILLIAMS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 10, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mervyn Hamburg, Atty., Justice Dept., Washington, D.C., Lawrence Benson, Robert J. Boitman, Asst. U.S. Atty., John P. Volz, U.S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

John Wilson Reed, New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellee.

BEFORE WISDOM, POLITZ, and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

I

A three-count indictment filed on May 12, 1989 charged defendant/appellee Williams with conspiracy to possess 670 grams of cocaine with intent to distribute, use of the mails to facilitate drug trafficking, and use of a person under eighteen years of age to assist in avoiding detection for drug trafficking. The essence of the offenses charged is that the defendant arranged for a package of cocaine to be mailed by someone in Los Angeles...

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