United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's drug conviction and sentence is affirmed over his challenge that the prosecutor made an improper and prejudicial closing argument that denied him a fair trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/13/2004
• Published 08/13/2004

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS and KING, Circuit Judges, and LOUISE W. FLANAGAN, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:John Herman Hare, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Marshall Prince, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  J. Strom Thurmond, Jr., United States Attorney, Jimmie C. Ewing, Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.