U.S. v. COOPER

No. 91-2966.

966 F.2d 936 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James Oscar COOPER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 6, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim W. James, Bryan, Tex. (court appointed), for defendant-appellant.

Paula Offenhauser, Asst. U.S. Atty., Ronald G. Woods, U.S. Atty., Houston, Tex., Danny Ashby, Trial Atty. and Bruce A. Pagel, Deputy Director of Litigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Narcotic & Dangerous Drug Section, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and WILLIAMS and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges.


JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal results from a series of undercover purchases of crack cocaine, search warrant executions, and arrests at Cooper's Sportsman's Lounge in Houston, Texas. Appellant Cooper was convicted and sentenced under a seventeen-count indictment charging various firearm and narcotics offenses. He raises a number of challenges to his conviction: (1) the duplicitous nature and ambiguity of the jury verdict as to his conspiracy count...

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