Opinion ID: 2658283
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Clovis Shantez Liggins

Text: Liggins urges that the evidence fails to show he was a part of, or even knew of, a larger drug distribution conspiracy and at most only establishes that he tangentially assisted his brother Shawn Perkins. Only a few of the hundreds of calls played for the jury involve Liggins, but we hold that these reasonably give rise to an inference of his participation in the drug distribution conspiracy. On a wiretapped call on November 26, 2008, Shawn Perkins directed Liggins to go over to [co-defendant Andre Dunkins’s location] and get “that three hundred he owe me,” and Liggins agreed. Perkins then called Dunkins to tell him that “that nigger, Black, fixin’ come through there.” On December 1, 2008, Liggins told Shawn Perkins that “Little Earl” wanted a “quarter” and that he “told them about 250,” to which Perkins replied, “Yeah, I’ll just give it for 225 and you can go ahead and make that 25.” In a wiretap conversation on January 9, 2009, Liggins asked Shawn Perkins: “Hey whatchu do with my work fool?” and Perkins responded that he had left it on the living room table. Later that day a female called Perkins from Perkins’ mother’s house on Campbell Street, and Perkins directs the female to a table for something and told her to “hide it somewhere real good.” 19 Case: 12-40515 Document: 00512575405 Page: 20 Date Filed: 03/27/2014 No. 12-40515 Additionally, cooperating witness James Liggins testified that he bought cocaine or crack from Shantez Liggins most weeks, and that he had asked Shantez to sell him drugs on credit, but Shantez said James would have to “speak to his brother to see would that be all right.” Cooperating witness Terrence Miles, a Paris crack dealer, testified that Shantez worked with “his brother, um, Marco and Shawn” in the crack business. The jury’s inference from this evidence that Liggins was a knowing member of the drug distribution conspiracy is not unreasonable.