United States v. Jevon Lewis

OPINION OF THE COURT

SCIRICA, Circuit Judge.

Jevon Lewis was one of three co-defendants tried and convicted in federal court for participating in an extensive drug-trafficking conspiracy based out of Camden, New Jersey. All three defendants filed appeals, and we decide each in separate opinions. This opinion addresses Lewis’s appeal. The jury found Lewis guilty of conspiracy to traffic drugs and of two murder charges related to the conspiracy. Lewis challenges his convictions contending the court erred: (1) in failing to give the jury his proffered “buy-sell” instruction; (2) in failing to…