U.S. v. MONTGOMERY

Nos. 98-4688, 98-4689, 98-4690, 98-4691, 98-4692, 98-4693, 98-4816.

262 F.3d 233 (2001)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Donnie MONTGOMERY, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Duane Carroll, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James DeBerry, a/k/a Peanut, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kevin Jones, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Pirrie Coates, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Daniel Hill, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dwayne Alonzo Holland, a/k/a Diddles, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: July 17, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Cyril Vincent Smith, Zuckerman, Spaeder, Goldstein, Taylor & Better, L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland; Donald Henry Feige, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellants.

Martin Joseph Clarke, Assistant United States Attorney, Christine Manuelian, Assistant United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.

ON BRIEF: Frederick J. Sullivan, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant Montgomery; Thanos Kanellakos, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant Jones; Jane C. Norman, BOND, CONTE & NORMAN, P.C., for Appellant Carroll; G. Godwin Oyewole, Washington, D.C., for Appellant Coates; Harold I. Glaser, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant Hill. Deborah S. Richardson, ZUCKERMAN, SPAEDER, GOLDSTEIN, TAYLOR & BETTER, L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland; Charles G. Bernstein, BERNSTEIN & SAKELLARIS, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant Holland. Lynne A. Battaglia, United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.

Before WIDENER, WILLIAMS, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MOTZ wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Judge WILLIAMS joined.

OPINION

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge:

This case grows out of a federal task force's investigation of drug trafficking in a public housing project in Baltimore, Maryland. That project, the Westport Housing Project, contained an area known as Maisbury Court that operated as an open air drug market. The government alleged that from May...

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