Legal Opinion
United States v. Gregory Jacen Sykes
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 4, 1992No. 92-1396PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
Gregory Sykes appeals from judgments of conviction entered by the district court 1 after a four-day jury trial. He was convicted of conspiring to distribute 169 grams of phencyclidine (“PCP”), a schedule II controlled substance, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846, and of using a firearm in the commission of the drug trafficking crime, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). On appeal, Sykes raises a total of seven issues. He argues that: (1) the district court erred in allowing the government case agent to sit at the prosecution table and to testify as an expert; (2) the court…
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