United States DC Circuit

In case involving former government official defendant from El Salvador involved in a 1999 shipment of cocaine from Colombia to the U.S., conviction and sentence for distributing cocaine and conspiring to import cocaine into the U.S. are affirmed over claims of error in admission of certain evidence, sufficiency of the evidence supporting conviction, and jury instructions.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/16/2006
• Decided 02/16/2007
• Published 02/16/2007

Judges

• Before:  GINSBURG, Chief Judge, and ROGERS and KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John C. Belcher argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Teresa A. Wallbaum, Appellate Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause and filed the brief for appellee.