United States Fifth Circuit

Court affirms convictions and sentences of pharmacists who filled illegitimate prescriptions for narcotic painkillers as part of a "script mill" conspiracy, where government had amassed overwhelming testimonial and documentary evidence to support the convictions. Two counts were reversed as to two defendants because government conceded it had failed to offer sufficient evidence in support of those particular charges.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2008
• Published 12/18/2008

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Julia Bowen Stern (argued), James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, TX, for U.S., Daucie Elana Shefman, Shefman Law Group, for Andre Dion Brown., Gerald Robert Fry (argued), Houston, TX, for Otufale., Michael M. Essmyer (argued), Essmyer, Tritico & Rainey, Houston, TX, Andrew L. Jefferson, Jr., Houston, TX, for Combs., George McCall Secrest, Jr. (argued), Bennett & Secrest, Houston, TX, for Wiley., David P. Cunningham (argued), Houston, TX, for Essett.