U.S. v. VILLARREAL

No. 91-4607.

963 F.2d 725 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Baldemar Sambrano VILLARREAL and Reynaldo Sambrano Villarreal, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 8, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Odis R. Hill, Hill, Perry & Sloan, Longview, Tex. (Court-appointed), Brian J. Serr, Professor of Law, Baylor Univ. Law School, Waco, Tex. (Court-appointed), for Reynaldo Sambrano Villarreal.

Clifton L. Holmes, Longview, Tex. (Court-appointed), for Baldemar Sambrano Villarreal.

Otis Carroll, Ireland, Carroll & Kelly, Tyler, Tex. (Court-appointed), for defendant-appellants.

Robert J. Erickson, Andrew Levchuk, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Jim Middleton, Wes Rivers, Asst. U.S. Attys., Bob Wortham, U.S. Atty., Tyler, Tex., for U.S.

Before WILLIAMS, JOLLY, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

Baldemar Sambrano Villarreal and his brother Reynaldo Sambrano Villarreal appeal their convictions for the murder of Texas Constable Darrell Lunsford on January 23, 1991. They assert a number of reasons for reversal. Each is without merit. We AFFIRM.

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On January 22, 1991, the Villarreals and Jesus Zambrano left Houston, Texas, in a 1982 Oldsmobile Cutlass in which was loaded approximately 31 pounds of marihuana that...

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