U.S. v. ANGELOS

No. 04-4282.

433 F.3d 738 (2006)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Weldon ANGELOS, Defendant-Appellant. George M. Anderson; Russell T. Baker, Jr.; Donald L. Beckner; Griffin B. Bell; Harold J. Bender; Thomas K. Berg; Rebecca A. Betts; James S. Brady; James R. Britton; B. Mahlon Brown, III; Buck Buchanan; Wayne A. Budd; David B. Bukey; Robert C. Bundy; William R. Burkett; A. Bates Butler, III; Mark W. Buyck, Jr.; Edward N. Cahn; J.A. Tony Canales; David J. Cannon; Zachary W. Carter; Jim R. Carrigan; Robert J. Cindrich; Benjamin R. Civiletti; Charles Clark; Robert J. Cleary; W.J. Michael Cody; Kendall Coffey; Janice McKenzie Cole; Veronica F. Coleman-Davis; James F. Companion; William B. Cummings; Margaret E. Curran; E. Bart Daniel; John G. Davies; Robert J. Del Tufo; Michael H. Dettmer; Joseph E. Digenova; W. Thomas Dillard; Harry D. Dixon, Jr.; Edward L. Dowd, Jr.; Ronald F. Ederer; John S. Edwards; Edgar W. Ennis, Jr.; Robert B. Fiske, Jr.; J. Don Foster; Daniel J. French; Susan Getzendanner; John J. Gibbons; Jonathan L. Goldstein; Tony M. Graham; Charles E. Graves; Saul A. Green; David Warner Hagen; Hal D. Hardin; Jo Ann Harris; Frederick J. Hess; Stephen B. Higgins; Roger Hilfiger; Roscoe C. Howard, Jr.; James A. Hurd, Jr.; Guy G. Hurlbutt; John M. Imel; Brian A. Jackson; Thomas Penfield Jackson; J. Alan Johnson; James E. Johnson; Gaynelle G. Jones; Nathaniel R. Jones; David J. Jordan; Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach; J. Ransdell Keene; John J. Kelly; W.A. Kimbrough, Jr.; John E. Lamp; Scott R. Lassar; George N. Leighton; Stephen C. Lewis; Timothy K. Lewis; Sidney I. Lezak; William J. Lockhart; Martin F. Loughlin; Andrew J. Maloney; Thomas J. Maroney; John S. Martin, Jr.; Sherry S. Matteucci; Ted L. McBride; Jay P. McCloskey; A. Melvin McDonald; Edward B. McDonough, Jr.; Frank J. McGarr; Patrick M. McLaughlin; H. Curtis Meanor; Kenneth J. Mighell; Abner J. Mikva; Irvin B. Nathan; James F. Neal; William A. Norris; K. William O'Connor; Denise O'Donnell; John O. Olson; Jerome F. O'Neill; Stephen M. Orlofsky; A. John Pappalardo; Robert M. Parker; Larry D. Patton; Terry L. Pechota; Layn R. Phillips; Harold J. Pickerstein; Richard J. Pocker; Sam C. Pointer, Jr.; George C. Pratt; William S. Price; John W. Raley, Jr.; Ronald S. Reed, Jr.; Ronald L. Rencher; Charles B. Renfrew; Janet Reno; James H. Reynolds; James G. Richmond; Jose De Jesus Rivera; William W. Robertson; James K. Robinson; James A. Rolfe; Benito Romano; Richard A. Rossman; Stanley J. Roszkowski; Robert J. Roth; Joseph Russoniello; Robert W. Rust; Stephen H. Sachs; H. Lee Sarokin; David M. Satz, Jr.; Carl Schnee; William S. Sessions; Abraham D. Sofaer; Henry L. Solano; Michael R. Spaan; Donald K. Stern; Herbert J. Stern; John W. Stokes, Jr.; J. Preston Strom, Jr.; Thomas P. Sullivan; Frederick W. Thieman Paul R. Thomson, Jr.; Victoria Toensing; Stanley A. Twardy, Jr.; Peter F. Vaira; Patricia M. Wald; Atlee W. Wampler, Iii Edward G. Warin; James J. West; Paul L. Westberg; Daniel E. Wherry; George W. White; Joseph M. Whittle; Francis M. Wikstrom; William D. Wilmoth; Alfred Wolin; Ronald G. Woods; Bob Wortham; Sharon J. Zealey; Donald E. Ziegler, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

January 9, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Lund, Assistant United States Attorney (Paul M. Warner, United States Attorney, with him on the briefs), District of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Jerome H. Mooney, Mooney Law Firm, Salt Lake City, UT; Erik Luna, Salt Lake City, UT, attorneys for Defendant-Appellant.

Jeffrey B. Sklaroff and Harry H. Rimm, Greenberg Traurig, New York, NY, filed a brief on behalf of Amici Curiae.

Before BRISCOE, ANDERSON and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.


BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Weldon Angelos was convicted of multiple drug, firearms, and money laundering offenses and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of fifty-five years and one day. Angelos now appeals his convictions and sentence. We exercise jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and affirm.

I.

In May and June of 2002, the government, with the assistance of a confidential informant (CI), conducted three controlled purchases...

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