United States v. Black

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

On April 12, 2012, a jury convicted James Black of conspiring to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846; using a telephone in committing or in causing or facilitating the conspiracy, id. § 843(b); and possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, id. § 841(a)(1). The convictions stemmed from charges made in the government’s Fifth Superseding Indictment in a longstanding, multi-defendant case that began in November 2007. Between the First Superseding Indictment (in which Black was first charged) and the jury trial, the government filed another four superseding…