U.S. v. JONES

No. 16-30525.

873 F.3d 482 (2017)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Byron JONES, Also Known as Big Baby Jones; Deloyd Jones, Also Known as Puggy Jones; Sidney Patterson, Also Known as Duda Man Patterson, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED October 13, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin G. Boitmann , Diane Hollenshead Copes, Esq. , Assistant U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Rachel Isabel Conner , Conner & Sothern, Claude John Kelly, III , Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, Autumn Alycia Town , Law Office of Autumn Town, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before SMITH, OWEN, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.


Byron Jones ("Byron"), Deloyd Jones ("Deloyd"), and Sidney Patterson appeal their convictions of numerous felonies related to their membership in a group called Ride or Die ("ROD"). They challenge the sufficiency of the evidence and the admission of certain evidence, the refusal to adopt proposed jury instructions...

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