United States Tenth Circuit

Defendants' convictions and two sentences for crimes stemming from a drug trafficking enterprise are affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) erroneous admission of evidence; 2) sufficiency of the evidence; 3) ineffective assistance of counsel; 4) denial of a defense counsel's motion to withdraw prior to trial; 5) the application of mandatory minimums in light of Booker; and 6) the constitutionality of the sentencing factors in relation to defendant's sentence and the vagueness of the underlying charge.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/16/2007
• Published 03/19/2007

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, Circuit Judge, McWILLIAMS, and SEYMOUR, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jessica Stengel (Loren E. Weiss, with her on the briefs) Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellant Dean Ramirez., Hakeem Ishola of Ishola Law Firm, P.C., Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellant Jose Antonio Vazquez., Stephen R. McCaughey of Salt Lake City submitted a brief for Defendant-Appellant Julio Cesar Lopez;  and Roy D. Cole of Law Office of Roy D. Cole, LLC, Ogden, UT, submitted a brief for Defendant-Appellant Eduardo Mozqueda-Ramirez., Elizabethanne Claire Stevens, Assistant United States Attorney (Paul M. Warner, United States Attorney, with her on the joint brief for all defendants), Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellee.