United States Eighth Circuit

Defendants' convictions for drug- and firearm-related offenses are affirmed over claims of error regarding whether the district court erred in: 1) denying a motion to suppress and in declining to reopen the suppression hearing record to allow admission of polygraph evidence; 2) allowing certain trial testimony by a DEA agent; 2) declining to include a request jury instruction; 3) instructing the jury as to the elements of a firearm offense; and whether 4) sufficient evidence supported one defendant's 18 U.S.C. section 924(c) conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2008
• Published 01/24/2008

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, HANSEN, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Rovell, argued, Chicago, IL (Alyssa E. Griffin and J. Stephen Walker, on the brief), for defendants-appellants., Matthew G. Whitaker, U.S. Attorney, argued, Des Moines, IA (Andrew H. Kahl, AUSA, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.