United States Eleventh Circuit

In a prosecution of several agents of the Cuban Directorate of Intelligence for murder charges and espionage against the United States military and Cuban exiles in southern Florida, their convictions are affirmed over claims regarding: 1) suppression of evidence from searches conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; 2) sovereign immunity; 3) discovery of information under the Classified Information Procedures Act; 3) trial issues on exercise of peremptory challenges, alleged prosecutorial and witness misconduct, and jury instructions; and 4) the sufficiency of the evidence. The case is remanded for partial resentencing of some defendants where the court erred in applying U.S.S.G. section 2M3.1(a)(1) instead of section 2M3.1(a)(2) in the absence of a finding that top secret information was gathered or transmitted.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/05/2008
• Published 06/05/2008

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.