United States v. Don Lamar Love, Also Known as Pink, United States of America v. Dewayne D. Phillips, Also Known as Boss

219 F.3d 721

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Decided: July 28, 2000
• Docket: 99-3291, 99-3384
• Status: Published

Opinions

PER CURIAM.

Don Lamar Love and Dewayne D. Phillips (collectively the appellants) appeal their drug-related convictions and sentences. We affirm.

The appellants raise several contentions related to their trial. We reject all of their arguments. First, the record contains substantial evidence on which the jury reasonably could have found Love guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Second, having considered Phillips’s allegations of trial error related to the district court’s voir dire about racial bias, the admission of drug evidence offered by the government, and the jurors’ review of trial exhibits during deliberations, we find no abuse of discretion by the district court.

The appellants also raise arguments about their sentences. We reject these arguments as well. The district court’s sentence-related factual findings about drug quantities have ample support in the record and none are clearly erroneous. Because the district court made no mistakes when imposing the appellants’ sentences, we must affirm the sentences.

Having satisfied ourselves that the cases were well tried in the district court, that no error of law or fact appears, and that the appellants’ appeals simply involve the application of settled principles of law to unique facts, we conclude the issues do not warrant a comprehensive opinion. We thus affirm the appellants’ convictions and sentences without further discussion. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.