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U.S. v. SHARPE

Nos. 97-60263, 97-60704.

193 F.3d 852 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sheri Lara SHARPE, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sheri Lara Sharpe; Thomas Leslie Holcomb; Peter Halat, Jr.; and Kirksey McCord Nix, Jr., also known as J R, also known as Junior, also known as Kirk, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 20, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Terrell Starrett, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), John Morgan Dowdy, Jr., Peter Hickman Barrett, Asst. U.S. Atty., James B. Tucker, Jackson, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Victoria May, Asst. U.S. Atty., Jackson, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee in docket No. 97-60263.

Michael W. Adelman (argued), Alison R. Steiner, Adelman & Steiner, Hattiesburg, MS, for Sharpe.

L. Clark Hicks, Jr. (argued), The Gunn Law Firm, Hattiesburg, MS, for Holcomb.

David Zeltner Chesnoff (argued), Goodman, Chesnoff & Keach, Las Vegas, NV, David A. Nickerson, San Rafael, CA, for Halat.

Cynthia Ann Stewart (argued), Jackson, MS, for Nix.

Before POLITZ, JOLLY and DUHE, Circuit Judges.

DUHÉ, Circuit Judge:

In this criminal appeal, we examine once again the sordid tale of Kirksey McCord Nix's ("Nix") prison-based criminal empire and the related murders of Vincent and Margaret Sherry. We first examined these events in United States v. Sharpe, 995 F.2d 49 (5th Cir.1993) ("Sharpe I"). Since Sharpe I new facts have come to light implicating Thomas Leslie...

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