United States v. Donnie Lamont Blount Gaylin Terod Johnson

POLITZ, Chief Judge:

Donnie Blount and Gaylin Johnson appeal their convictions for drag trafficking and firearms offenses. Concluding that the evidence presented was legally insufficient to convict on the firearms counts and that the district court erred in denying the defendants’ motion to suppress, we reverse, render in part, and remand in part.

Background

Near dawn on September 15, 1994, plainclothes officers of the Houston Police Department and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms executed a search warrant on 3717 Campbell Street, a suspected crack house in Houston’s…