United States v. Green

CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:

I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

Defendants engaged in drug trafficking over a period of eight and a half years in parts of Texas and Louisiana. Defendants were indicted on June 11, 1998, on seven counts. The grand jury returned a su-perceding indictment on December 8, 1998, that added one count of distribution of cocaine base and additional overt acts to the conspiracy charged. The counts in the superceding indictment were: conspiring to possess with intent to distribute over fifty grams of cocaine base between January 1, 1990, and May 7, 1998 (count 1); distribution of cocaine…