United States Eleventh Circuit

Convictions for knowingly participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy and possession of a firearm are affirmed over claims that the district court: 1) erred by permitting expert witness to explain that he relied upon out-of-court statement of a drug trafficker who testified at trial to the same statement; and 2) abused its discretion by permitting the expert witness to explain that he determined the meaning of coded language by relying on out-of-court statement of the drug trafficker.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/03/2006
• Published 05/03/2006

Judges

• PRYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES, WILSON and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William H. Thomas and Anne R. Schultz, Asst. U.S. Attys., Amy Levin Weil, U.S. Atty., Richard A. Rice, Jr., Atlanta, GA, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• W. Charles Lea, Donald F. Samuel, Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C., Robert H. Citronberg, Herbert Shafer, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants.