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U.S. v. FILANI

No. 73, Docket 95-1051.

74 F.3d 378 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Joseph Omotunde FILANI, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 11, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colleen P. Cassidy, New York City (The Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Division, Appeals Bureau, New York, New York, of counsel), for Appellant.

Jo-Anne Weissbart, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, New York (Zachary W. Carter, United States Attorney, Susan Corkery, Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, New York, of counsel), for Appellee.

Before: CARDAMONE, MINER, and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

On November 30, 1993 Joseph O. Filani landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, arriving on an Air France flight from Paris. He was returning home to Little Rock, Arkansas from a trip to Nigeria. Filani, a lawful permanent resident of the United States, is the father of four children, and at the time of these events he had been a U.S. resident for 14 years and owned a janitorial business in Little Rock. After landing...

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