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- Title: United States V. Williams
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit
- Release Date : January 01, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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MILBURN, Circuit Judge. Defendants Beverly Powell, Raymond Williams, and Kevin Wilson appeal their jury convictions and sentences for conspiring to distribute cocaine and cocaine base in violation of Title 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(a)(1); The issues raised in this appeal are (1) whether the district court erred in denying defendant Powell's motion to suppress evidence obtained when police stopped the vehicle in which she was a passenger and subsequently searched her purse, (2) whether the district court erred in denying defendant Powell's request for production of Special Agent Dodson's original handwritten notes, (3) whether defendant Williams was denied a fair trial by failure on the part of the government to timely file a bill of particulars and by a prejudicial variance between the bill of particulars and the proof offered at trial, (4) whether the district court erred in determining for sentencing purposes that defendants Wilson and Williams were leaders or supervisors of the conspiracy, (5) whether the district court erred in determining for sentencing purposes the amount of drugs for which defendant Wilson was responsible, (6) whether 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B)(iii) is void for vagueness because of a failure to define "cocaine base," and (7) whether the treatment of one gram of crack cocaine for sentencing purposes as the equivalent of 100 grams of cocaine powder pursuit to 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) violates Equal Protection guarantees of the Fifth Amendment. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.