United States v. Jeffrey Booker, United States of America v. Cordel D. McGlothern

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Jeffrey Booker and Cordel McGlothern appeal their convictions following conditional guilty pleas, respectively, to drug charges, see 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), § 846, and to misprision of felony, see 18 U.S.C. § 4. Mr. McGlothern also appeals his sentence. We affirm the judgment of the district court. 2

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At a hearing on the defendants’ joint motion to suppress more than 1.5 kilograms of cocaine that was discovered in a search of a truck owned by Mr. McGloth-ern and driven by Mr. Booker, the state troopers who carried out the search gave a detailed account of…