United States v. Kenneth W. Conrad

Appellant was convicted by a jury and sentenced for conspiring to violate 21 U.S.C. § 176a. He appeals, making the following contentions :

(1) The evidence was insufficient;

(2) The trial court deprived him of due process by restricting his cross-examination of co-conspirators who testified for the Government;

(3) The trial court improperly refused to limit cross-examination of a defense witness;

(4) The prosecuting attorney was guilty of prejudicial misconduct in his closing remarks to the jury;

(5) The trial court erred when it refused to suppress marihuana seized from a co-conspirator;

(6) The trial court erred when it admitted the marihuana into evidence against appellant.

We find the contentions without merit and affirm appellant’s conviction.

Adams, Foster and Kochel, residents of Tuscon, Arizona, and Apodaca, a col lege student at Yuma, Arizona, entered into an agreement to smuggle marihuana into the United States from Mexico. Foster and Kochel were the money men. Apodaca was in charge of hiring individuals to smuggle marihuana across the international border and take it to the airport at Yuma. Adams was to obtain pilots to fly the marihuana from Yuma to…