U.S. v. DE LOS SANTOS-HIMITOLA

No. 90-1434.

924 F.2d 380 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jose DE LOS SANTOS-HIMITOLA, Walber Meza-Navarro, Pedro Guerrero-Grueso, and Alfonso Gonzalez, Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 28, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nydia Maria Diaz-Buxo, by Appointment of the Court, Caguas, P.R., for defendants, appellants.

Luis A. Plaza, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Daniel F. Lopez-Romo, U.S. Atty., was on briefs for the U.S.

Before CAMPBELL, TORRUELLA and CYR, Circuit Judges.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Defendants Jose De Los Santos Himitola, Walber Meza Navarro, Pedro Guerrero Grueso, and Alfonso Gonzalez ("De Los Santos, et al.") appeal from a sua sponte order by the district judge declaring them parole ineligible. The three issues now before us are as follows: first, whether the no-parole provisions of the 1986 amendments to 21 U.S.C. §§ 960 & 962 were effective immediately upon the amendments' enactment on...

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