Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses Sentencing and Makes the Government Play Fair In an unpublished Eleventh Circuit appeal opinion issued April 24, 2025, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the defendant/appellant that the government breached a plea agreement in which is agreed to a stipulated amount of loss in an unemployment fraud […]
FEDERAL APPEAL – CASE REVERSED ON SENTENCING ISSUE
November 20, 2024 by
Federal Drug Case Appeal Results in Remand for Resentencing In a Federal appeal of a drug conspiracy conviction, the Eleventh Circuit vacated the sentence and remanded the case back to the District Court for resentencing. Our client was charged in a multi-count federal drug trafficking / drug distribution case. We were successful in getting an […]
11TH CIRCUIT OPINION ON “DRUG CODE” LANGUAGE EXPERT
September 29, 2021 by
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals released a decision on September 29, 2021, in which it addressed, among other issues, the Government’s use of an expert in interpreting drug code and drug language found in intercepted communications introduced at trial. In United States v. Eddie Lee Perry & Chad Ragin, eight co-defendants were indicted by […]
LIFE SENTENCE REVERSED ON DRUG TRAFFICKING APPEAL
January 15, 2021 by
Court of Criminal Appeals holds drug dog sniff violates 4th Amendment Recent Court of Criminal Appeals decision reversed Bradford Ladner’s client’s life sentence for drug trafficking, holding the trial court made the wrong ruling when it denied a motion to suppress evidence from a search warrant. Officers of the Mobile Police Department used a drug […]
