U.S. v. WILLIAMS

No. 05-20430.

449 F.3d 635 (2006)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Tyrone Mapletoft WILLIAMS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 10, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Tony Ray Roberts (argued), Houston, TX, for U.S.

Craig A. Washington (argued), Houston, TX, for Williams.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DeMOSS and OWEN, Circuit Judges.


PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Returning to this Court for the third time, this case arises out of an illegal alien smuggling conspiracy that caused the deaths of nineteen undocumented aliens secreted in the trailer of a tractor-trailer driven by defendant Tyrone Mapletoft Williams from Harlingen, Texas, to Victoria, Texas. Five days after receiving the case at the close of Williams's trial for various alien smuggling offenses in violation of 8 U.S.C. §...

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