JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge: At dawn on May 14, 1979 the “Cowboy,” a large shrimping vessel, was stopped by a Coast Guard cutter in the Straits of Yucatan. Approximately 41,000 pounds of marijuana were discovered in the vessel’s ice hold. This case is an appeal by the captain of the “Cowboy,” Jay Hilery DeWeese, from a jury conviction for conspiracy to import marijuana into t…
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