United States v. Joseph Earvin Lewis and Melvin Ronnell Wade

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

Appellants Melvin Wade and Joseph Lewis were convicted in the district court on drug trafficking charges. Finding none of his arguments on appeal persuasive, we affirm Wade’s conviction and sentence. Having determined that there was insufficient evidence to convict Lewis, we must reverse his conviction.

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BACKGROUND

On December 2, 1988, Inspector Dan Overton of the United States Postal Inspection Service received warning from a fellow inspector in Los Angeles, California that a parcel containing suspected non-mailable materials would be arriving in Jackson,…