Legal Opinion
United States v. Brian Thomas, Floyd Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 5, 1993No. 91-8707PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
Defendants Floyd Johnson (“Johnson”) and Brian Thomas (“Thomas”) appeal from their convictions for involvement in a cocaine transaction. We uphold Johnson’s and Thomas’s convictions on Count One for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute but reverse Thomas’s conviction on Count Two for aiding and abetting in the use of a firearm during the commission of a drug felony. In reversing Thomas’s conviction, we hold that a defendant reserves his Fed.R.Crim.P. 29 right to appellate review of a particular count on the basis of the government’s case-in-chief alone when…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Alderman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- United States v. Charles Robert WhiteCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
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3Cited by49 opinions
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