U.S. v. ORTIZ

No. 89-6099.

942 F.2d 903 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Maria Del Rosario ORTIZ, Ricardo Garza, Juanita R. Garza, and Ismael Soza, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 13, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roel R. Trevino, Pharr, Tex. and Charles Louis Roberts, El Paso, Tex., for Ortiz and Soza.

Gerald H. Goldstein and Cynthia E. Hujar Orr, Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley, San Antonio, Tex., for Ricardo Garza.

Chris Flood, Houston, Tex., for Juanita Garza.

Merv Hamburg, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Crim.Div., Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., and Paula C. Offenhauser, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before REAVLEY, POLITZ and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

Four defendants appeal their convictions for various offenses arising out of a far-flung conspiracy to import and distribute marijuana. Of their five assignments of error, the one about which they most stridently complain is that the district court refused to order a new trial in the face of juror affidavits indicating that not all of the verdicts were unanimous. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

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