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· 7/17/1981

United States v. Leroy Alexander Mazyak, Iii, Charles Franklin Adams, Lawrence Marshall Moore, Jr. And Charles Fletcher Allen

Citations

  • 650 F.2d 788
  • 8 Fed. R. Serv. 1288
  • 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 11301

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  • holding letter to defendants not hearsay because it was offered only to show connections between defendants and smuggling vessel
  • holding letter to defendants not hearsay because it was offered only to show connections between defendants and smuggling vessel
  • affirming convictions of captain and crew found on forty-two foot trawler laden with 14,611 pounds of marijuana; the trawler had left Miami nineteen days before it was stopped seventy miles south of Cuba
  • affirming convictions of captain and crew found on forty-two foot trawler laden with 14,611 pounds of marijuana; the trawler had left Miami nineteen days before it was stopped seventy miles south of Cuba
  • letter, addressed to all four defendants, found aboard ship was admissible nonhearsay as circumstantial proof of association between defendants, and collective association with ship
  • presence of crew on board ship with large quantity of contraband and lengthy voyage enough to sustain conspiracy conviction of crew

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Judges: Hill, Vance, Lynne

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