U.S. v. JONES

No. 91-8438.

1 F.3d 1167 (1993)

ITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Tommy Hill JONES, Rickie Lockhart, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 15, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Stuart Smith, Federal Defender Program, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for Lockhart.

Donald Samuel, Garland & Samuel, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Jones.

William R. Toliver, Asst. U.S. Atty., Atlanta, GA, for U.S.

Before COX and DUBINA, Circuit Judges, and GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge.


GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge:

Defendants were convicted under all counts of a multi-count indictment charging narcotics offenses.

I.

Both defendants seek reversal based on remarks made by government counsel in oral argument. One remark referred to defendants' "sell[ing] cocaine and crack knowing what it does to people, knowing the misery it causes." The second remark was: "If you sit on five, six, seven more juries during the course of your life...

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