U.S. v. RICE

No. 09-40116.

607 F.3d 133 (2010)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John Fitzgerald RICE, Jr.; Sarah Lynn Cormier, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 12, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michelle Suzanne Englade, Asst. U.S.Atty., Beaumont, TX, Miriam Elena Rea, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Plano, TX, for U.S.

Margaret Loraine Schmucker (argued), Austin, TX, for Rice.

Jani Jo Maselli (argued), Houston, TX, for Cormier.

Before GARWOOD, SMITH and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.


JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

John Rice and Sarah Cormier appeal their convictions of carjacking and related offenses. They raise various claims of error and prosecutorial misconduct. We affirm.

I.

One day in December 2007, Cormier and Rice joined Aldrain Booker, Keisha Guidry, Joshua Hayward, and William Stanton in search of people to rob. The group first went to a local bingo hall, where Rice and Hayward discussed robbing a woman who had just...

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