United States Eleventh Circuit

In a multi-defendant criminal drug case involving three separate trials, with 20 of 30 defendants pleading guilty, convictions and sentences are reversed as to one defendant's gun conviction and sentence, but are otherwise affirmed over claims of error related to evidence, severance, jury instructions, drug quantity, sentencing, and ineffective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/19/2007
• Published 04/19/2007

Judges

• DUBINA, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and COX, Circuit Judges, and SCHLESINGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Amy Levin Weil, William H. Thomas, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Atlanta, GA, for U.S., Sanford A. Wallack (Court-Appointed), Sanford A. Wallack, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Rodriguez-Sotelo., Robert J. Yzaguirre, Jose E. Chapa, Yzaguirre & Chapa, McAllen, TX, for Cervantes., David R. MacKusick (Court-Appointed), Stockbridge, GA, for Vargas., Thomas S. Robinson, III (Court-Appointed), Snellville, GA, Sandra Michaels (Court-Appointed), Atlanta, GA, for Mejia and Valdovinos-Busto., Beth E. Edmondson (Court-Appointed), Law Offices of Beth E. Edmondson, Atlanta, GA, for Nunez-Virraizabal., Akil Kenneth Secret (Court-Appointed), The Secret Firm, P.C., Decatur, GA, for Perez.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lewis C. Muller (Court-Appointed), Santee, CA, Jeffrey P. Manciagli, Atlanta, GA, Gerald H. Goldstein, Cynthia Eva Hujar, Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley, San Antonio, TX, Richard A. Grossman (Court-Appointed), Atlanta, GA, Cynthia W. Roseberry (Court-Appointed), C.W. Roseberry, LLC, Fayetteville, GA, William A. Morrison (Court-Appointed), Jones, Morrison & Womack, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants in 05-14475.