United States Fourth Circuit

Defendants' convictions on drug distribution, drug conspiracy, and money-laundering conspiracy charges are affirmed over claims of error regarding sufficiency of the evidence, prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel, and defendants' sentences are vacated pursuant to US v. Booker.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/01/2005
• Published 12/01/2005

Judges

• Before MICHAEL, MOTZ, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Eli D. Stutsman, Portland, Oregon, for Appellants.   Thomas Ernest Booth, United States Department Of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  G. Wells Dickson, Jr., Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellant Deborah Bordeaux;  Lionel S. Lofton, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellant Ricardo U. Alerre;  David Bruce Betts, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant Michael D. Jackson.  Jonathan S. Gasser, Acting United States Attorney, William E. Day, II, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.