United States v. Kevin Williams-Davis

STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

According to a 115-count superseding indictment, appellants were major players in a sizable conspiracy to distribute drugs from 1983 to 1991 around the intersection of Lincoln Road and R Street in Northeast Washington, D.C.

The district court divided approximately twenty-four defendants into four groups for separate trials; the five appellants here comprise Group I. After a five-month trial and two weeks of jury deliberation, the jury on July 21, 1992 found all the appellants guilty of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute illegal…