Pimentel-Tafolla

ORDER

This Court’s memorandum disposition, filed July 30, 2002, is hereby withdrawn.

With the filing of the new disposition, Appellant Springfield’s petition for rehearing, filed August 19, 2002, is DENIED, and Appellant Martinez’ petition for rehearing, filed August 9, 2002, is also DENIED.

MEMORANDUM *

The seven defendants in these consolidated cases (Mariano Pimentel-Tafolla, Randy James, Donald Frank Printz, Vincent Martinez, Carlos Salazar-Lopez, William Lanter, and Joshua Springfield) were involved, to varying degrees, in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy in Billings, Montana. All were convicted of conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute, under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 (a)(1), 846, and 18 U.S.C. § 2 . Each defendant was also convicted of some combination of various counts of possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, under 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 2 , and using a firearm in a drug trafficking crime, under 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 2 . The facts of the case and the specific convictions are well known to all parties, so we will not repeat them here except as necessary to explain our holding.

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