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U.S. v. WILLIAMS

Nos. 95-2916, 95-2917 and 95-2920.

97 F.3d 240 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Gerald Lakeith WILLIAMS, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Carlos VIGNALI, Jr., also known as C-Low, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Todd Louis HOPSON, also known as Ted Shia, also known as Snoop, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 1, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul C. Engh (argued), Minneapolis, MN, for Williams.

Donald M. Re (argued), Los Angeles, CA, for Vignali.

Craig E. Cascarano (argued), Minneapolis, MN, for Hopson.

Andrew Stephen Dunne and Denise Ducharme Reilly, Assistant U.S. Attorneys (argued), Minneapolis, MN, for U.S.

Before BOWMAN, HEANEY, and BEAM, Circuit Judges.

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Appellants were charged, along with twenty-eight others, with being part of a massive drug trafficking network that shipped cocaine from Los Angeles, California, to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Gerald Williams appeals the sentence imposed by the district court.1 Todd Hopson and Carlos Vignali challenge their convictions and the district court's denial of their motions for new trial. We affirm.

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