United States v. James Oscar Cooper

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal results from a series of undercover purchases of crack cocaine, search warrant executions, and arrests at Cooper’s Sportsman’s Lounge in Houston, Texas. Appellant Cooper was convicted and sentenced under a seventeen-count indictment charging various firearm and narcotics offenses. He raises a number of challenges to his conviction: (1) the duplicitous nature and ambiguity of the jury verdict as to his conspiracy count; (2) the multipli-cious nature of the convictions for leasing a crack house as well as firearm counts during and in relation to drug…