United States Fifth Circuit

Defendants' convictions on various drug charges are affirmed over claims of error regarding insufficiency of the evidence and denial of their motions for severance. One defendant's sentence is vacated where the evidence did not support an inference that cocaine was reasonably foreseeable to him for purposes of a relevant conduct determination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/15/2006
• Published 06/16/2006

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH, GARZA and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Aloysius Convery (argued), Hasdorff & Convery, San Antonio, TX, for Cesar Arrnoldo Valdez.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Mark Randolph Stelmach, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.