U.S. v. THOMAS

No. 99-60241.

246 F.3d 438 (2001)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rodney THOMAS; Hines Weekly, III, also known as Borey; Bertha T. Weekly; Clastine Pittman, also known as Cooter, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 26, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Henry Norman (argued), Calvin D. Buchanan, Oxford, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

William F. Travis (argued), Law Offices of William F. Travis, Southaven, MS, for Rodney Thomas.

Before KING, Chief Judge, and HIGGINBOTHAM and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges.


DUHÉ, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by four participants in a crack cocaine distribution conspiracy concerning errors putatively made in their federal jury trial and in the sentencings that followed it. For the following reasons, we affirm the convictions and sentences with respect to all defendants except Bertha Weekly. We vacate her sentence and remand for resentencing.

BACKGROUND

One evening in 1997, some Clarksdale, Mississippi, police...

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