Opinion ID: 74336
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Text: 1. Whether the defendants’ convictions are supported by sufficient evidence. 2. Whether the district court’s procedure for designating alternate jurors was error and requires reversal of the defendants’ convictions. 4 3. Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying the defendants’ severance motions. 4. Whether the district court properly sentenced the defendants. 5. Whether the district court abused its discretion in admitting out-of-court statements under the coconspirator exception to the hearsay rule. 6. Whether there was a prejudicial variance between allegations of the indictment and the government’s proof at trial. 7. Whether plea agreements in which the government offers leniency in exchange for a cooperating witness’s testimony violates 18 U.S.C. § 201(c)(2). 8. Whether distribution of cocaine base (21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)) is a lesser included offense of employment of a minor to distribute cocaine base (21 U.S.C. § 861(a)).