Both hydrocodone (chedule II) and carisoprodol (chedule IV) are federally controlled substances, meaning the only way to legally obtain them is through a prescription issued by a practitioner registered with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). and “Soma,” a brand of the drug carisoprodol marketed as a muscle relaxant. Craig consistently prescribed for treatment-consisted of “Norco,” a mixture of the opioid hydrocodone and acetaminophen. As stated in Faithful’s opening brief on appeal: The clinic’s “formulary”-the “certain group of drugs” Dr. Craig was Gulfton’s medical director and sole treating physician Faithful, its administrator and owner of its management company. Appellants began operating the Gulfton Community Health Center (Gulfton) in Houston, Texas, as a pain-management clinic in 2015. AFFIRMED IN PART VACATED and REMANDED IN PART. The only two fully preserved issues are Craig’s challenges to the procedural and substantive reasonableness of her sentence. Of the 11 issues appellants raise, nine of them, including sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenges, are reviewed only for plain error.
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Appellants also claim additional trial and sentencing errors. § 841(a)(1) and the district court’s excusing a juror, rather than declaring a mistrial, after that juror had contact with a Government agent during the evening following the seventh day of a nine-day retrial. 18-20671 having been aided or abetted by others, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir.
§§ 841(a)(1) and 846, and aiding and abetting the unlawful distribution of controlled substances, or unlawfully distributing controlled substances Pursuant to 5th Cir. PER CURIAM:* Primarily at issue are Gazelle Craig’s and Shane Faithful’s challenges to: the sufficiency of the evidence supporting their jury-trial convictions for conspiring to unlawfully distribute controlled substances, in violation of 21 U.S.C. 4:17-CR-419-2 Before BARKSDALE, HAYNES, and WILLETT, Circuit Judges. SHANE FAITHFUL, Defendants - Appellants Appeals from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas USDC No. 18-20671 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FILED AugLyle W. Case: 18-20671 Document: 00515514219 Page: 1 Date Filed: IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit No.
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