United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence, following a jury trial, for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, are vacated where certain notebooks introduced into evidence were not sufficiently authenticated, the error violated defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause, and the error was not harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/09/2010
• Published 11/09/2010

Judges

• E. Grady Jolly

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel