Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Masontae HICKMAN; Markus D. Chopane; Jyi R. McCray; Edwin T. Limbrick; Edmond Gasaway, Defendants-Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1999-06-21
Citations: 179 F.3d 230
Docket Number: No. 97-40237
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Masontae HICKMAN; Markus D. Chopane; Jyi R. McCray; Edwin T. Limbrick; Edmond Gasaway, Defendants-Appellants.
Judges: Before KING, Chief Judge, and POLITZ, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH, DUHÉ, WIENER, BARKSDALE, EMILIO M. GARZA, DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, STEWART, PARKER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 179
Pages: 230–244

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Masontae HICKMAN; Markus D. Chopane; Jyi R. McCray; Edwin T. Limbrick; Edmond Gasaway, Defendants-Appellants.
No. 97-40237.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
June 21, 1999.
Michael R. Dreeben, U.S. Dept, of Justice, Washington, DC, Paul E. Ñaman, John B. Stevens, Jr., Keith Fredrick Gib-lin, Beaumont, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Frank Warren Henderson, Amy R. Blal-ock, Tyler, TX, for Hickman.
Richard Ellis Turkel, Turkel, Dumas & Lebleu, Orange, TX, for Chopane.
Thomas Alan Chambers, Liberty, TX, for McCray.
Louis Dugas, Jr., Orange, TX, Jay Edward Tantzen, Bridge City, TX, for Lim-brick.
Douglas Milton Barlow, Beaumont, TX, for Gasaway.
Before KING, Chief Judge, and POLITZ, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH, DUHÉ, WIENER, BARKSDALE, EMILIO M. GARZA, DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, STEWART, PARKER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
By reason of an equally divided en banc court, we affirm all the counts of conviction against all appellants, and we affirm the sentences of all appellants except Chopane. For the reasons relating to Chopane's sentence set out in the panel opinion, see United States v. Hickman, 151 F.3d 446, 460-62 (5th Cir.1998), reh'g granted and opinion vacated, 165 F.3d 1020 (5th Cir.1999), we unanimously vacate Chopane's sentence and remand for resentencing.