U.S. v. MASTRAPA

No. 06-4512.

509 F.3d 652 (2007)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Alejandro MASTRAPA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: December 12, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Neal Lawrence Walters, Scott & Kroner, P.C., Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellant. Jean Barrett Hudson, Office of the United States Attorney, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: David I. McCaskey, Staunton, Virginia; Michael Castiglione, Third Year Law Student, Matthew Dunne, Third Year Law Student, University of Virginia School of Law, Appellate Litigation Clinic, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellant. John L. Brownlee, United States Attorney, Roanoke, Virginia, Ray B. Fitzgerald, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellee.

Before NIEMEYER and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and T.S. ELLIS, III, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge DUNCAN and Senior Judge ELLIS joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

After Jose Alejandro Mastrapa agreed with two other men to transport several bags of groceries to a hotel room in Shenandoah County, Virginia, undercover agents in the hotel found five pounds of methamphetamine among the groceries and arrested Mastrapa along with the two others. Mastrapa...

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