U.S. v. CAPOTE-CAPOTE

No. 90-3493.

946 F.2d 1100 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Alfredo CAPOTE-CAPOTE and Gustavo Perdomo Rodriguez, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 25, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald O. Pinkston, New Orleans, La. (Court-appointed), for Capote.

Kyle Schonekas (Court-appointed), Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, Marc D. Winsberg, New Orleans, La., for Rodriguez.

John O. Braud, Peter G. Strasser, Asst. U.S. Attys., John P. Volz, U.S. Atty., New Orleans, La.,

Before POLITZ and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges, and PRADO, District Judge:


PRADO, District Judge:

I

At approximately 5:15 p.m. on August 10, 1989, an informant working with the Drug Enforcement Administration called the United States Attorney's office in New Orleans and reported that two men had offered to sell him cocaine. The informant, who was not a New Orleans resident, had been taken by one of his contacts to a private residence and shown cocaine, but could not recall the name of the street, although he remembered the numbers...

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