U.S. v. ROBERTS

Nos. 99-4919, 99-4925, 99-4926, 00-4306.

262 F.3d 286 (2001)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lucien Antonio ROBERTS, a/k/a Lou, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Pedro Santos, Jr., Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Darrell Antonio Gumbs, a/k/a Kyle, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Aaron Keith Covington, a/k/a A-Man, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 16, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Charles E. Haden, Hampton, Virginia; Larry W. Shelton, Jones, Shelton & Malone, P.C., Norfolk, Virginia; James Stephen Ellenson, Newport News, Virginia, for Appellants. Laura Marie Everhart, Assistant United States Attorney, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Douglas Fredericks, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellant Gumbs. Helen F. Fahey, United States Attorney, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee.

Before NIEMEYER and KING, Circuit Judges, and MARGARET B. SEYMOUR, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge SEYMOUR joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

On appeal from their convictions for conspiracy to traffic in illegal drugs and related offenses, the four appellants in this case assign numerous errors, the most significant of which is that they were entitled, pursuant to Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120...

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