U.S. v. MAHECHA-ONOFRE

No. 90-1405.

936 F.2d 623 (1991)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Luis Eduardo MAHECHA-ONOFRE, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia M. Garriga, by appointment of the Court, for defendant, appellant.

Antonio R. Bazan, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Daniel F. Lopez Romo, U.S. Atty., was on brief, for appellee.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges.


BREYER, Chief Judge.

Luis Mahecha Onofre appeals his conviction and 146 month prison sentence for unlawfully bringing cocaine into the United States. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) (possession with intent to distribute); 952(a) (importation of controlled substance in United States); 955 (controlled substance aboard aircraft). He makes three arguments. We find none of them convincing.

First, Mahecha says that the evidence was not sufficient to...

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