Legal Opinion
United States v. Kenneth Joe Whitten, John Elmer Gaiefsky, Jack Wayne Gish, Richard Lawrence Shimel
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 25, 1983No. 82-1315, 82-1293, 82-1294 and 82-1303PublishedCited by 264 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWARZER, District Judge:
Kenneth Whitten and twenty-three codefendants were charged in a twenty-four count indictment with making and selling methamphetamine. The trial court severed the case against four defendants, Whitten, Shimel, Gaiefsky, and Gish, who now appeal from their convictions of various narcotics offenses in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846, 843(b), and 848.
Appellants were charged with operating illegal methamphetamine laboratories in Texas and California and with marketing the drug in a number of states. A key point of distribution was Las Vegas, where Debra Howard…
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