United States v. Mark Sylvester, Leon Brown, and Willie Earl Culley

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Mark Sylvester, Leon Brown, and Willie Culley appeal their convictions and, in Brown’s case, the sentence, for assorted drug-related crimes. We remand for a hearing on their jury tampering claim and reject the remainder of their challenges.

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Culley ran an automotive shop in Jackson, Mississippi. Following a lengthy investiga tion, the government concluded that he also presided over a cocaine distribution network that bought the drug in Houston and sold it in Jackson. Brown, the government charged, was one of Culley’s couriers who often accompanied Culley on his…