United States Fourth Circuit

In multiple appeals from drug convictions and sentences: 1) vehicle stop and search were valid, where defendant was not "seized" because of a checkpoint, but because of a traffic infraction committed during flight from that checkpoint; 2) court did not err in preventing defendant from asking cooperating government witnesses about the U.S.S.G. ranges they were facing; and, 3) defendants' sentences upheld.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/04/2002
• Decided 06/06/2002
• Published 06/06/2002

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and W. Craig BROADWATER, United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Joseph Bart Gilbert, McNeil & Gilbert, Jacksonville, North Carolina, for Appellant Scheetz;  Joseph Blount Cheshire, V, Cheshire & Parker, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant Labuwi;  Joseph Edward Zestotarski, Jr., Poyner & Spruill, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant Brooks.  Christine Witcover Dean, Assistant United States Attorney, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney, Anne M. Hayes, Assistant United States Attorney, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.