United States v. Carlos Martinez Medina, United States of America v. Rodimiro Rojas-Oquita, AKA Rody, United States of America v. George Stephen Aguilar-Correa, AKA El Grande

940 F.2d 1247 UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carlos Martinez MEDINA, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rodimiro ROJAS-OQUITA, aka Rody, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George Stephen AGUILAR-CORREA, aka El Grande, Defendant-Appellant. Nos. 89-10651, 89-10653 and 90-10002. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 11, 1991. Decided July 31, 1991. Edward H. Laber, Stephen G. Ralls and Sean Bruner, Ralls & Bruner, Michael J. Brady, Tucson, Ariz., for defendants-appellants. David A. Kern, Asst. U.S. Atty., Tucson, Ariz., for plaintiff-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Before BRUNETTI and RYMER, Circuit Judges, and WILSON, * District Judge. RYMER, Circuit Judge: 1 These are three of the appeals arising out of a three-and-a-half-week drug conspiracy trial in Tucson, Arizona in August of 1989. Rodimiro Rojas-Oquita was indicted on 17 counts and convicted on 14. 1 We vacate his two conspiracy convictions because they are lesser-included offenses of his conviction for engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise and…