UNITED STATES v. NORBERT

No. 20-60106.

24 F.4th 1016 (2022)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Okanlawan O. NORBERT, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed February 4, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Layne Kennedy, Esq. , Andrew W. Eichner , Assistant U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Gaines H. Cleveland , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi, Gulfport, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Omodare Jupiter, Esq. , Abby Brumley Edwards, Esq. , Assistant Federal Public Defenders, Thomas Creagher Turner, Jr., Esq. , Federal Public Defender's Office, Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before Owen, Chief Judge, and Davis, Jones, Smith, Stewart, Dennis, Elrod, Southwick, Haynes, Graves, Higginson, Costa, Willett, Ho, Duncan, Engelhardt, Oldham, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.


The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED by an equally divided court. Our "judgment [is] not entitled to precedential weight no matter what reasoning may have supported it." Rutledge v. United States, 517 U.S. 292

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