United States v. Tremane Carthen, et al. (11th Cir. October 2018)
| Eighth Amendment, Eleventh Circuit, Evidence, Fifth Amendment, Firearm Offenses, Sentencing
The Court affirmed the convictions of two defendants who were sentenced under § 924(c), holding that the district court did not err in admitting hearsay testimony from a co-conspirator or in excluding specific instances of the co-conspirators prior lies to impeach him, and that the mandatory sentencing scheme in § 924(c) was constitutional.