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· 3/7/1979

United States v. Pedro Pablo Rodriguez

Citations

  • 588 F.2d 1003

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that \hispanics\ do not constitute a recognizable class
  • conviction under drug-importation statutes requires showing that defendant knew he was importing controlled substance
  • the Court found that appellant had failed to establish that the persons of “Latin origin” constitute a “single cognizable group rather than several — e. g. Cuban-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Argentine-Americans, Spanish-Americans, etc.”

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Judges: Brown, Thornberry, Tuttle

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