U.S. v. LUCIANO-MOSQUERA

Nos. 92-1923 to 92-1925, 92-1973, 92-1974 and 94-1657.

63 F.3d 1142 (1995)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Julio LUCIANO-MOSQUERA, Defendant, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Raul LUGO-MAYA, Defendant, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Rafael PAVA-BUELBA, Defendant, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Carlos PAGAN-SAN-MIGUEL, Defendant, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Edgar GONZALEZ-VALENTIN, Defendant, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Carlos PAGAN-SAN-MIGUEL, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 28, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lydia Lizarribar-Masini, for appellant Luciano-Mosquera.

Ramon Garcia, for appellant Lugo-Maya.

Rafael Gonzalez Velez, for appellant Pava-Buelba.

Frank A. Ortiz, for appellant Pagan-San-Miguel.

Wilfredo Rios Mendez, for appellant Gonzalez-Valentin.

Epifanio Morales Cruz, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Guillermo Gil, U.S. Atty., Jose A. Quiles Espinosa, Senior Litigation Counsel, and Nelson Perez-Sosa, Asst. U.S. Atty., were on brief, for U.S.

Before SELYA, BOUDIN and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

At 2:45 a.m. on March 27, 1991, in the darkness of the night over a Puerto Rico beach, government flares brightened the sky as waiting police and customs officers surprised and arrested six men offloading eight bales of cocaine from two yawls. The men had brought 232.8 kilograms of cocaine to this country from Colombia. Others involved were arrested on land and on sea. Those arrests led ultimately to these appeals by five of the men, Carlos Pagan...

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