United States v. Sheridan, No. 15-41678 (5th Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of two counts of transporting aliens within the United States. Border Patrol agents found two aliens in a large tool box in the back of a pickup truck driven by defendant, but owned by defendant's cousin. Defendant claims that he was unaware of the aliens in the back of the truck. The court concluded that the district court’s jury charge was a correct statement of the law relating to the crime of transporting aliens, and the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to provide defendant's proposed supplemental instruction, borrowed from the court's constructive possession of narcotics caselaw. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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