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ATLANTA (CN) Attorneys for two former Miami cops convicted of drug trafficking charges after escorting cocaine suppliers in an FBI sting told an 11
th Circuit panel Thursday that their clients’ convictions should be overturned due to procedural errors at trial.
“This case is about an entrapped rookie police officer threatened by his only contact,” attorney Ashley Litwin of Seitles & Litwin argued on behalf of James Archibald.
After a June 2019 trial, Archibald was sentenced to 10 years in prison and his co-conspirator Kelvin Harris was sentenced to 27 1/2 years for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. Harris was also convicted of possessing a firearm during the commission of a drug trafficking crime.