U.S. v. GARCIA-JAIMES

Nos. 05-14475, 05-14481, 05-14482, 05-14483, 05-14669, 05-17251 and 06-10121.

484 F.3d 1311 (2007)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Efrain GARCIA-JAIMES, a.k.a. Peluchin, Armando Baragan Ramirez, et al., Defendants-Appellants. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dante Rodriguez-Sotelo, Defendant-Appellant, United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leopoldo Valencia Cervantes, a.k.a. Polo, Defendant-Appellant, United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Patricio Vargas, Defendant-Appellant, United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jaime Gonzales Mejia, Jose Antonio Valdovinos-Busto, Defendants-Appellants, United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leonardo Nunez-Virraizabal, Defendant-Appellant, United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Luis Eduardo Perez, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 19, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis C. Muller (Court-Appointed), Santee, CA, Jeffrey P. Manciagli, Atlanta, GA, Gerald H. Goldstein, Cynthia Eva Hujar, Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley, San Antonio, TX, Richard A. Grossman (Court-Appointed), Atlanta, GA, Cynthia W. Roseberry (Court-Appointed), C.W. Roseberry, LLC, Fayetteville, GA, William A. Morrison (Court-Appointed), Jones, Morrison & Womack, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants in 05-14475.

Amy Levin Weil, William H. Thomas, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Atlanta, GA, for U.S.

Sanford A. Wallack (Court-Appointed), Sanford A. Wallack, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Rodriguez-Sotelo.

Robert J. Yzaguirre, Jose E. Chapa, Yzaguirre & Chapa, McAllen, TX, for Cervantes.

David R. MacKusick (Court-Appointed), Stockbridge, GA, for Vargas.

Thomas S. Robinson, III (Court-Appointed), Snellville, GA, Sandra Michaels (Court-Appointed), Atlanta, GA, for Mejia and Valdovinos-Busto.

Beth E. Edmondson (Court-Appointed), Law Offices of Beth E. Edmondson, Atlanta, GA, for Nunez-Virraizabal.

Akil Kenneth Secret (Court-Appointed), The Secret Firm, P.C., Decatur, GA, for Perez.

Before DUBINA and COX, Circuit Judges, and SCHLESINGER, District Judge.


DUBINA, Circuit Judge:

This is a huge, complex, multi-defendant criminal drug case in which the district court judge presided over three separate trials in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The original indictment charged 30 individuals with multiple drug trafficking, firearm, and money laundering offenses. Seventeen of those individuals pled guilty. Of the remaining 13 defendants, ten proceeded to trial and three entered guilty...

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