United States Fifth Circuit

Defendants' convictions and sentences for their involvement in a drug trafficking ring are affirmed in part, but vacated in part as to three defendants' sentences where the district court erred in mandatorily applying the Sentencing Guidelines as to those defendants.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/07/2007
• Published 12/10/2007

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Michael Dowd (argued), Brownsville, TX, James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for U.S., Kimberly S. Keller (argued), The Keller Law Firm, San Antonio, TX, for Jimenez., Larry Chris Iles (argued), Rockport, TX, for Morales., Edmund Keith Cyganiewicz (argued), Law Office of Edmund Cyganiewicz, Brownsville, TX, for Villarreal., Larry L. Warner (argued), Law Offices of Larry Warner, Brownsville, TX, for Contreras.