UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Abel ZAPATA, Luis Ocampo, Defendants-Appellants
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
Abel Zapata and Luis Ocampo appeal their convictions and sentences for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, and distribution of marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846.
On appeal, Zapata and Ocampo contend that their convictions and sentences should be reversed because the admission of extrinsic-offense evidence under Federal Rules of Evidence 404(b) violated their rights to a fair trial and the district court erroneously “rounded-up” the conversion of drug quantity to set the base offense level.
A trial court has broad discretion in…
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