U.S. v. PIPER

No. 17-10913.

912 F.3d 847 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. David PIPER, Jr., also known as "D"; Carlos Cortinas, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED January 10, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Michael Pellettieri, Esq., Candice C. Wong, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, James Wesley Hendrix, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Catherine Ann Rushlow Dunnavant, Dunnavant & Associates, P.L.L.C., Arlington, TX, for Defendant-Appellant DAVID PIPER, JR.

Nelson Ebaugh, Esq., Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant CARLOS CORTINAS.

Before JOLLY, DENNIS, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.


David Piper, Jr. and Carlos Cortinas were convicted by a jury of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B) from approximately March 2015 through January 2016. The district court sentenced Piper to 235 months of imprisonment and five years of supervised...

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