United States v. Gregory Darnell Turner and Curtis Woodrow Jones, United States of America v. John Lewis Kelly

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

Gregory Turner, Curtis Jones, and John Kelly appeal their convictions for possessing and distributing cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). We affirm because the warrantless entry into Turner’s apartment was justified by exigent circumstances and there is sufficient evidence to sustain the convictions.

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On October 20, 1978, a police corporal learned from an informant that Turner and Jones were using Turner’s apartment in Hillside, Maryland, to distribute cocaine. The informant told the corporal that Turner and Jones had sold cocaine in his presence to several…