USA v. PRECIADO
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in USA v. PRECIADO, No. 06-50649, a criminal appeal. The panel consisted of Alex Kozinski and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, Senior District Judge.
PER CURIAM:
Preciado met with a man named “El Huate,” who asked her to smuggle drugs into the United States. Preciado agreed and two weeks later El Huate came to her home in Mexico. Preciado left her two-year-old son with her sister Magdalena, who was staying at Preciado’s home. El Huate drove Preciado and her other four children, whose ages ranged from seven months to six years, to a nearby McDonald’s, where a van with 150 pounds of marijuana was waiting. Preciado drove the van to the United States with the four children, and she . . .