United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Joe Garza-Juarez and Esteban Garza-Juarez, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees

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93 Daily Journal DAR 5160·992 F.2d 896·1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 8960·93 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 2972

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitApril 23, 199392-10187, 92-10188, 92-10233 and 92-10234California8,542 words

Opinion

Aldisert, J.

We are presented with cross appeals. Appellants Joe Juarez and Esteban Juarez, who were convicted on charges stemming from the sale of firearms and the possession of unregistered suppressors (silencers), present questions of entrapment and improper and vindictive prosecutorial conduct. The government appeals from the district court’s downward departure from the sentencing guidelines recommendations, the sentencing court being of the view that the government’s investigatory conduct was sufficiently coercive to warrant.a mitigation of the sentences. We affirm the convictions and sentences in all respects.

Jurisdiction was proper in the trial court based on 18 U.S.C. § 3231 . This court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.C. § 3742 (b) (appeals from sentencing). The appeals were timely filed under Rule 4(b) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure:

I.

The investigating agents initiated numerous meetings and telephone conversations with the Juarez brothers, and one agent wore a hidden microphone during all of the meetings and also taped all telephone conversations. Trial trans., Nov. 12-14, 1991, at 79. The tapes of four conversations, on June 9, August 4, August…

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Parties

UNITED STATES of America--Cross-
Plaintiff
Joe GARZA-JUAREZ and Esteban Garza-Juarez--Cross-
Defendant

Judges

Aldisert
Goodwin
Fletcher

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