UNITED STATES v. BAXTER

No. 96-4140.

128 F.3d 670 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Donald Lee BAXTER, Jr., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 27, 1997.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied December 5, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Lance Gallego, Columbia, MO, for Appellant.

Christina Y. Tabor, Kansas City, MO, for Appellee.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, HANSEN and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied December 5, 1997.

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

Jose Jesus Varela, Donald Lee Baxter, Jr., Loreto Romero, and Erasmo Lajam were arrested at a Kansas City, Missouri train station after they drove there to meet a confidential informant whom Baxter and Romero had hired to transport cocaine from California, and Baxter took possession of the informant's suitcase containing the cocaine. The approximate gross...

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