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UNITED STATES v. CAICEDO-ASPRILLA

No. 78-5544.

632 F.2d 1161 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Francisco CAICEDO-ASPRILLA, Antonio Barrios-Hoyos, Juan Calixto-Comacho, Juan Carlos Cinotto-Pantuso, Thomas Miranda-Barrios, Cristobal Fernandez-Gomez, Washington Archibald-Robinson, Guillermo Gonzales, Wilfrido Carfarzuza-Cortina, Delio Diaz-Lopez, Jaime Alvarez-Herrera, Cesar Zuniga-Lopez and Marcelo Manuel Cantera-Duyos, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ramon Clark Calafell, Jr., Tampa, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Fernandez-Gomez.

Enrique Escarraz, III, St. Petersburg, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Archibald-Robinson.

F. Dennis Alvarez, Tampa, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Gonzales.

Anthony Alfonso, Jr., Tampa, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Carfarzuza-Cortina.

Anthony P. Prieto, Tampa, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Diaz-Lopez.

Elvin L. Martinez, Tampa, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Alvarez-Herrera.

Frederick Allen Garcia, Tampa, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Zuniga-Lopez.

Thomas M. Gonzalez, Tampa, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Caicedo-Asprilla.

Philip J. Padovano, Tallahassee, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Barrios-Hoyos.

James D. Arnold, Tampa, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Calixto-Comacho.

Frank A. Gomez, Tampa, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Cinotto-Pantuso.

Jesse V. Dominguez, Tampa, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Miranda-Barrios.

Henry Gonzalez, Tampa, Fla., for Cantera-Duyos.

John E. Lund, Asst. U. S. Atty., Tampa, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, TJOFLAT and REAVLEY, Circuit Judges.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

The thirteen defendants in this case appeal their convictions for conspiring to import marijuana into the United States, and for distributing marijuana with knowledge that it would be unlawfully imported into the United States. 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 959(2), 963 (1976). They assert numerous grounds for reversal: (1) the trial judge was disqualified to try the case and should have recused himself; (2) the district court lacked subject...

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