U.S. v. PRECIADO-CORDOBAS

Nos. 88-5276, 89-5134, 89-5138 and 91-6094.

981 F.2d 1206 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Martin PRECIADO-CORDOBAS, Carlos Escobar, Luis Miguel Ariza-Sierra, Mario Alberto Guzman-Angarita, Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Luis Miguel ARIZA-SIERRA, Martin Preciado-Cordobas, Carlos Escobar, Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mario Alberto GUZMAN-ANGARITA, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Luis Miguel ARIZA-SIERRA, Carlos Escobar, Martin Preciado-Cordobas, Mario Alberto Guzman-Angarita, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 27, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton Hirsch, Miami, FL, for Martin Preciado-Cordobas, Carlos Escobar and Luis Miguel Ariza-Sierra.

Hal Kessler, Miami, Miami Beach, FL and San Francisco, CA, for Mario Alberto Guzman-Angarita.

Humberto J. Pena, Zuckerman, Spaeder, Taylor & Evans, Miami, FL, Sheryl Lowenthal, Coral Gables, FL, for amicus Florida Ass'n of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Phillip DiRosa, Linda C. Hertz and Mayra R. Lichter, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, FL, for U.S.

Before DUBINA and BLACK, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge:

During the appellants' consolidated jury trial on drug and conspiracy charges, the court reporter's recording equipment malfunctioned, rendering his notes of much of the closing arguments, the jury charge and the motions for judgment of acquittal illegible and impossible to transcribe. This case has been previously remanded twice, first to reconstruct the jury charge and the second time to recall the closing arguments. In their third...

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