United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine is affirmed over defendant's challenges to: 1) a denial of his motion to suppress; 2) denial of his Batson objection to the government's strike of the only African American on the venire panel; 3) the denial of a motion for a new trial based on the government's closing argument; and 4) various aspects of his sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/05/2008
• Published 08/05/2008

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, TRAXLER, Circuit Judge, and Terry L. WOOTEN, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Rena Gladys Berry, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellant.   Craig Jon Jacobsen, Office of the United States Attorney, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  John L. Brownlee, United States Attorney, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellee.