U.S. v. BENNETT

No. 90-3261.

928 F.2d 1548 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Derick BENNETT a/k/a Jamaican Derick, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 25, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. J. Sheppard, Matthew P. Farmer, Sheppard & White, Jacksonville, Fla., for defendant-appellant.

Mark B. Devereaux, Asst. U.S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FAY and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.


JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

Derick Bennett appeals his conviction on charges of cocaine distribution and retaliation against a government informant.

I. BACKGROUND OF THE CASE

In the spring of 1989, Derick Bennett was involved in cocaine distribution in Jacksonville, Florida. He gave some crack cocaine to a friend named Carolyn Taylor. Taylor then took the drugs to Alexander Gardner and asked him to sell the...

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