Legal Opinion
United States v. Craig L. Watson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 22, 2007No. 06-2836PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Craig L. Watson of four counts related to the distribution of cocaine base in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 and 846, and the district court 1 sentenced him to 276 months imprisonment. Watson appeals from the judgment, arguing that the district court should have granted his second motion for a new trial based on the fact that his trial attorney had been suspended from practice by the State of Arkansas during his representation of Watson. We affirm.
Watson and a codefendant were indicted in May 2004 on six counts of drug related offenses, and a superceding…
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