United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence for multiple drug, firearms, and money laundering offenses is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) denial of a motion to suppress; 2) evidentiary rulings, 3) an Eighth Amendment challenge, and 4) an equal protection claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/10/2006
• Published 01/10/2006

Judges

• BRISCOE, Circuit Judge., Before BRISCOE, ANDERSON and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey B. Sklaroff and Harry H. Rimm, Greenberg Traurig, New York, NY, filed a brief on behalf of Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert A. Lund, Assistant United States Attorney (Paul M. Warner, United States Attorney, with him on the briefs), District of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Jerome H. Mooney, Mooney Law Firm, Salt Lake City, UT;  Erik Luna, Salt Lake City, UT, attorneys for Defendant-Appellant.