United States v. Speight

The appellant, Cearful Speight, was indicted with a number of others in a 42 count indictment arising out of a large cocaine operation in the Eastern District of Virginia. Speight was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and more than fifty grams of crack cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 (1988). Speight was also convicted of several substantive offenses, including distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) (1988), and use of a firearm in relation to drug trafficking, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 924(c) (West Supp. 1995). Finally, Speight was also convicted of four counts of distribution of cocaine base. Speight was sentenced to 360 months imprisonment on the conspiracy charge and was also sentenced to concurrent terms of 240 months on each of the substantive charges.