UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Mary Jane FIKE, Eddie Franklin Douglas, Edd C. Douglas, Altonio O'Shea Douglas, Elbert Douglas, Jr., James Weldon Campbell, Burvon King, Orpheus Hill, Arthur Jackson Douglas, Chauncey Mosley, Cynthia Tamplin, Wesley James Wilson, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 7, 1996.
May 7, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Richard Alley (Court-appointed), Ft. Worth, TX, for Mary Fike.
William H. Ray (Court-appointed), Fort Worth, TX, for Elbert Douglas.
John W. Sweeney, Jr., Douglas, Kressler & Wuester, Fort Worth, TX, for Arthur Jackson Douglas.
Charles A. Friedman (Court-appointed), Ft. Worth, TX, for Edd C. Douglas.
Louis Edward Sturns (Court-appointed), Arlington, TX, for Cynthia Tamplin.
Michael P. Heiskell (Court-appointed), Johnson, Vaughn & Heiskell, Fort Worth, TX, for James Campbell.
Robert Ford (Court-appointed), Fort Worth, TX, for Wesley Wilson.
Michael Logan Ware (Court-appointed), Fort Worth, TX, for Burvon King.
Michael Berg (Court-appointed), Fort Worth, TX, for Orpheus Hill.
Donald S. Gandy (Court-appointed), Fort Worth, TX, for Altonio O'Shea Douglas.
Gerald H. Goldstein, Cynthia Hujar Orr, Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley, San Antonio, TX, John Linebarger, Ft. Worth, TX, for Eddie Franklin Douglas.
William W. Chambers (Court-appointed), Ft. Worth, TX, for Chauncey Mosley.
J. Michael Worley, Asst. U.S. Atty., Paul E. Coggins, U.S. Atty., Fort Worth, TX, for appellee.
Willie Abrams, Dennie Courtland Hayes, Baltimore, MD, Gary L. Bledsoe, Bledsoe, Brown, Evans & McCullough, Austin, TX, amicus curiae: NAACP (Eddie Franklin Douglas).
Before DAVIS and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and BUNTON, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judge:
Appellants were convicted of participating in a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute cocaine base (crack cocaine) in Fort Worth. The conspiracy distributed approximately five kilograms of crack cocaine each week for eighteen months during 1991-92. A twenty-count indictment was returned against twenty-four defendants. Of these, seventeen were tried in a consolidated trial. After a seven week trial, twelve were convicted of at least...
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