United States Eighth Circuit

Defendants' convictions and sentences on drug and firearms charges are affirmed over claims of error regarding sufficiency of the evidence, juror misconduct, evidentiary error, severance, and sentencing error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/01/2006
• Published 05/01/2006

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, FAGG, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa G. Nouri, Kansas City, MO, for appellant Henry Ruiz., Christopher C. Harlan, Collins, Fairfield, Fowler, Harlan & Breen, L.L.C., Kansas City, MO, for appellant Carl A. Chatman., Gregory W. Vleisides, Kansas City, MO, argued, for appellant Joseph Gonzales., S. Chase Higinbotham, Jr., Belton, MO, argued, for appellant Michael A. Aviles, Elizabeth Unger Carlyle, Lee's Summit, MO, argued, for appellant Kevin C. Darks., Robin D. Fowler, Bath & Edmunds, P.A., Overland Park, KS, argued, for appellant Robert Lopez., Daniel O. Herrington, Armstrong Teasdale L.L.P., argued, for appellant Augustine C. Aviles.


• For Appellees:
  
• David M. Ketchmark, Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, MO, argued (Todd P. Graves, U.S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.