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                 United States Court of Appeals

                     For the First Circuit











No. 99-1199



                          UNITED STATES,



                            Appellee,



                                v.



                  JUAN ANTONIO DE LA CRUZ MOYA,



                      Defendant, Appellant.







           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                 FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO



        [Hon. Juan M. Perez-Gimenez, U.S. District Judge]







                              Before



                     Torruella, Chief Judge,

                Campbell, Senior Circuit Judge,

                   and Lynch, Circuit Judge.

                                

                                

                                

                                

     Lawrence H. Schoenbach and Marc X. LoPresti on brief for

appellant.

     Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, Jorge E. Vega-Pacheco,

Assistant United States Attorney, and Michelle Morales, Assistant

United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.











June 7, 1999







  

            Per Curiam.  Upon careful review of the briefs and

  record, we conclude that the district court properly denied

  defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment.  We reach this

  conclusion essentially for the reasons stated in the district

  court's Opinion and Order dated January 12, 1999.  Defendant

  failed to produce even "some evidence tending to prove that .

  . . one sovereign was a pawn of the other."  United States v.

  Guzman, 85 F.3d 823, 827 (1st Cir. 1996).

            Affirmed.  See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.