United States v. McGill, No. 06-3190 (D.C. Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseSixteen defendants were indicted for charges related to their involvement in a conspiracy to run a large-scale and violent narcotics-distribution business centered in Washington D.C. Many of the indicted defendants pleaded guilty to the charges, while the others went to trial in two separate groups. The Group One trial culminated in guilty verdicts and substantial sentences for each defendant. Group Two consisted of five defendants: Deon Oliver, Franklin Seegers, Kenneth Simmons, James Alfred, and Ronald Alfred. Keith McGill was indicted of charges related to his participation in the same conspiracy and joined the Group Two defendants. The jury found Oliver, Simmons, James Alfred, Ronald Alfred, and McGill guilty on all counts and found Seegers guilty on seven of the charged counts. The six Group Two defendants appealed. The court concluded that the evidence was sufficient to convict on all of the challenged counts; the court rejected most of the claims of error or find that the alleged errors were harmless under the appropriate standard of review; the court reversed the convictions on two counts against Seegers, however, and the court also remanded to the district court to determine whether any of defendants’ conspiracy convictions must be vacated because of a Confrontation Clause violation; certain of McGill’s sentencing arguments have merit, moreover, and the court remanded for examination of claims by Simmons and Ronald Alfred that they received ineffective assistance of counsel before the district court.
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