United States v. Aikins

923 F.2d 650 1993 A.M.C. 2400 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 to 88-1379, 89-16067. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 7, 1990. Decided Aug. 15, 1990. As Amended Jan. 9, 1991. 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 high seas on February 19, 1988 and…