United States v. Aikins

912 F.2d 285 30 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 1270 UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George Gordon AIKINS, Roosevelt Rodney, Manuel Arcenio Angulo-Castillo, Roberto Daniel Cayasso-Schellett, Lai Chai Hai, Anastacio Henry-Barnard, Eusebio Samudio-Jiminez, William Graham Snyder, Defendants-Appellants. Nos. 88-1369, 88-1373, 88-1374, 88-1375, 88-1376, 88-1377, 88-1378, 88-1379 and 89-16067. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 7, 1990. Decided Aug. 15, 1990. John Ashford Thompson, Michael R. Levine, Federal Public Defender, Benjamin B. Cassidy, III, Richard T. Pafundi, William A. Harrison, R. Steven Geshell, Richard S. Kawana, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendants-appellants. Louis A. Bracco, Asst. U.S. Atty., Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiff-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. Before CANBY, NOONAN and RYMER, Circuit Judges. NOONAN, Circuit Judge: 1 George Aikins, Manuel Angulo-Castillo, Roberto Cayasso-Schellett, Lai Chai Hai, Anastacio Henry-Barnard, Roosevelt Rodney, Eusebio Samudio-Jiminez, and William Snyder were convicted of possessing with intent to distribute 21,000 pounds of marijuana on the…