United States Third Circuit

Defendants' convictions and sentences for drug- and firearm-related offenses are affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) the sufficiency of the evidence; 2) jury instruction; 3) a refusal to suppress a witness's in-court identification of one defendant; 4) ineffective assistance of counsel; 5) the substantive reasonableness of the sentences; 6) whether the district court relied on a clearly erroneous fact in calculating the applicable Sentencing Guidelines ranges; 7) the calculation of the applicable Guidelines ranges; and 8) whether the district court treated the applicable Guidelines range for defendant's crack cocaine offense as mandatory, in light of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Kimbrough v. US, 128 S. Ct. 558 (2007).

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/03/2008
• Decided 02/12/2008
• Published 02/12/2008

Judges

• Before:  FUENTES, JORDAN, Circuit Judges and DuBOIS , District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis E. Boyle, Boyle & Wenger, Camp Hill, PA, for Appellant Jaycee Wise., Ronald A. Krauss, [Argued], Office of Federal Public Defender, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellant Edwin Brown.


• For Appellees:
  
• Theodore B. Smith, III, [Argued], Eric Pfisterer, Michael A. Consiglio, Office of United States Attorney, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellee.