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Estrada: Upholding Convictions for Smuggling Cuban Baseball Players

By Tim Cone

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In United States v. Estrada, No. 17-15405 (Aug. 13, 2020) (Jill Pryor, Rosenbaum, Branch), the Court affirmed the defendants' convictions for smuggling baseball players out of Cuba into the United States. First, the Court rejected as foreclosed by prior precedent the defendants' arguments that the Cuban Adjustment Act and Wet-Foot/Dry-Foot policy established ?prior official authorization? for the players to enter the US. The Court also rejected the argument that 1324(a)(2)?s ?prior official authorization? component was unconstitutionally vague. Second, the Court found that the evidence was sufficient to support the defendants' convictions for both aiding and abetting alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling...continue to full post

Full post as published by Defense Newsletter Blog on August 13, 2020 (boomark / email).