U.S. v. BLEVINS

Nos. 91-5508 to 91-5510.

960 F.2d 1252 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ervin Jahue BLEVINS, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joel Amos MITCHELL, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dewey Glen JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 31, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Charles Jessee, Jessee & Jessee, Johnson City, Tenn., argued for defendant-appellant Mitchell.

Timothy Wayne Hudson, Slaughter, Hudson & Dougherty, Bristol, Tenn., argued for defendant-appellant Blevins.

William Gordon Ball, Knoxville, Tenn., argued for defendant-appellant Johnson.

Jennie L. Waering, Asst. U.S. Atty., Roanoke, Va., argued (E. Montgomery Tucker, U.S. Atty., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WILKINSON, WILKINS, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

Ervin Blevins, Dewey Johnson, and Joel Mitchell appeal their convictions for participation in a drug distribution conspiracy and other drug-related offenses. These convictions came at the end of a complex seven-day trial. As the bases for reversal of the convictions, appellants now allege fourteen separate grounds of error. While we reject thirteen of these grounds as being without merit, we conclude that the introduction...

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