United States v. Donald Craig Scroggins

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Donald Craig Scroggins appeals his conviction and sentence for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride and cocaine base in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846. Scrog-gins was sentenced to life imprisonment and five years of supervised release. We vacate Scroggins’s sentence and remand to the district court for further proceedings as explained below.

Facts and Proceedings Below

Earl Buchanan, a man informally adopted by defendant Scroggins, was arrested in March 2001 for drug trafficking. A few days after Buchanan’s arrest,…