Legal Opinion
United States v. Chaston Cross (96-5218) Perry Thomas (96-5219)
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 29, 1997No. 96-5218, 96-5219PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Defendants-Appellants Perry Thomas and Chaston Cross appeal prison sentences entered pursuant to guilty pleas. For the reasons stated below, we affirm Thomas’s sentence but vacate Cross’s sentence and remand for resentencing.
I. FACTS
This rather gruesome case has its origins in a cocaine-selling operation that Thomas, Cross, and co-defendant Tonda Wright conducted out of Wright’s apartment in early 1995. On February 8 of that year the three left the apartment — and three rocks of crack cocaine — in the care of Larry Lovelace, an associate of theirs who kept house…
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