United States Fifth Circuit

Defendants' convictions and sentences for drug related offenses are affirmed over claims that: 1) the district court abused its discretion in denying a motion for a continuance; 2) there was insufficient evidence to support one conviction for conspiracy to distribute crack; 3) the district court legally erred in ruling that suppression is not a remedy for violations of the pen-trap statute; 4) the district court abused its discretion in denying a motion for a continuance; 5) the district court erred in calculating a drug quantity; and 6) the within-guidelines sentences were unreasonable in light of applicable statutory factors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/14/2007
• Published 05/14/2007

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Josette Louise Cassiere and Alexander Coker Van Hook, Asst. U.S. Attys., Shreveport, LA, for U.S., Randall R. Robinson, Snell & Robinson, Bossier City, LA, for German.