United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant's sentence for a drug conviction is affirmed where the district court properly determined that defendant was a career offender under the US Sentencing Guidelines since he had a prior drug-related conviction and a prior violent felony conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2005
• Published 04/26/2005

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, SMITH and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paula Camille Offenhauser (argued), and James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, TX, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marjorie A. Meyers, Fed. Pub. Def., H. Michael Sokolow (argued), Richard Bruce Gould, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.