Posted on Wed, Jun. 04, 2008
The Associated Press
ATLANTA --
A federal appeals court has upheld convictions of five men convicted of
being part of a Cuban spy network but vacated sentences of three of them.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals returned
those sentences to a judge in Miami for resentencing based on findings
in an opinion filed Wednesday.
The full 11th Circuit court already upheld the convictions of the
so-called "Cuban Five" in an August 2006 ruling that rejected claims
that their federal trial should have been moved from Miami because of
widespread opposition among Cuban-Americans there to the Cuban government.
The latest decision involved other issues, including a life sentence for
one defendant convicted of murder conspiracy in the deaths of four men
shot down by Cuban jets in 1996.
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