United States Eleventh Circuit

Miami trial and convictions of five defendants for acting and conspiring to act as unregistered Cuban intelligence agents working within the U.S. and for conspiring to commit murder are affirmed over claims that the pervasive community prejudice against the Cuban government and its agents and the publicity surrounding the trial that existed in Miami prevented defendants from obtaining a fair and impartial trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/09/2006
• Published 08/09/2006

Judges

• PRYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH, PRYOR and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Erik Luna, University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT, for Sociedad Cubana de Ciencias Penales, Amicus Curiae., Carl Peter Erlinder, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, MN, for National Lawyers Guild, Amicus Curiae., Ricardo Javier Bascuas, University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, FL, for Nat. Ass'n of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amicus Curiae., Corali Lopez-Castro, Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, P.A., Coral Gables, FL, Edward G. Guedes, Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Antonio C. Castro, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Rodolfo Sorondo, Jr., Holland & Knight, LLP, Francisco Ramos, Jr., Clarke Sirverglate Campbell Williams & Montgomery, Miami, FL, for Cuban American Bar Ass'n, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brenda G. Bryn, Federal Public Defender, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Philip Robert Horowitz (Court-Appointed), Law Office of Philip R. Horowitz, Esq., Paul A. McKenna (Court-Appointed), McKenna & Obront, William M. Norris (Court-Appointed), William M. Norris, P.A., Kathleen M. Williams, Federal Public Defender, Joaquin Mendez, Jr., Federal Public Defender, Joaquin Mendez, P.A., Jack R. Blumenfeld (Court-Appointed), Atty. at Law, Richard C. Klugh, Jr., Federal Public Defender, Orlando do Campo, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Miami, FL, Leonard I. Weinglass, Atty. at Law, New York City, for Defendants-Appellants., Kathleen M. Salyer, Anne R. Schultz, U.S. Atty., Caroline Heck, U.S. Atty., Miami, FL, David M. Buckner, Kozyak, Tropin & Throckmorton, P.A., Coral Gables, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.