United States v. Alvarado

* Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.
**Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the Court has determined that
this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except
under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.
***Appellants make the following claims: (1) Fernando Alvarado
claims that the district court miscalculated his base level
sentence by overestimating the amount of drugs involved in the
conspiracy and improperly enhanced his sentence for both possession
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
For the Fifth Circuit
No. 98-40480
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
VERSUS
FERNANDO ALVARADO; IRMA GARCIA; ARGELIA LLANOS; SAVAS URIBE;
ALEJANDRO PAZ,
Defendants-Appellants.
Appeals from the United States District Court
For the Southern District of Texas
(M-97-CR-221-2)
March 22, 2000
Before DAVIS, CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL* and SMITH, Circuit Judges
PER CURIAM:**
In this appeal from convictions and sentences in a multiple
defendant drug trafficking and money laundering case, the
Appellants raise a number of issues.***

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of firearms and playing an organizational or leadership role in
connection with his drug trafficing offenses; (2) Irma Garcia
claims that insufficient evidence was presented at trial to support
her money laundering convictions, the district court improperly
admitted evidence of an uncharged financial transaction that was
unduly prejudicial to her defense, and her property was wrongly
seized under mandatory criminal forfeiture laws; (3) Angelia Llanos
claims that the district court failed to instruct the jury that her
alleged money laundering transactions must have affected interstate
commerce, that there was insufficient evidence to show that
interstate commerce was adequately affected, and that the federal
money laundering statute at issue is unconstitutional both facially
and as applied; (4) Savas Uribe claims that insufficient evidence
was presented at trial to support his convictions and that the
district court erred in admitting evidence at trial of numerous
firearms recovered in a search of his residence, in enhancing his
sentence for possession of these weapons in connection with his
crimes, and in miscalculating his base level sentence by
overestimating the amount of drugs involved in his offense; and (5)
Alejandro Paz claims that insufficient evidence was presented at
trial to support his convictions.
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After carefully reviewing the record and considering the
Briefs and arguments of counsel, we are persuaded that none of the
Appellants’ arguments have merit and the district court committed
no reversible error. The judgment of conviction and sentence as to
all defendants is therefore affirmed.
AFFIRMED.

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