United States Fifth Circuit

Convictions for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute are vacated where the district court violated her Confrontation Clause right by not allowing her to ask a government witness, a narcotics officer, where specifically he was located when he allegedly observed her selling drugs while on the front porch of her home, and the error was not harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/12/2006
• Published 09/12/2006

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKSDALE, STEWART and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Edward L. Bravenec, McKnight & Bravenec, San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.