United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2019-08-20
Case and law context
Role: applied; posture: Multi-count drug prosecution; §846 appears in the indictment alongside attempt and §841 counts; result: remanded; claim:
Instances and excluded annotation blocks
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| /f3d/934/1251-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2019 | Agreement of two or more persons to the unlawful object | satisfied Excluded from merits counts applied / procedural basis: law; party: Hawkins; count: Count One conspiracy; subject: party=Hawkins; count=Count One conspiracy The court rejects a sufficiency challenge using all admitted evidence but vacates the conviction for improper case-agent testimony. Procedural scope excludes this retrial-permitting conclusion from final merits-instance counts. | retrial/sufficient-record-including-erroneously-admitted-testimony | Through the intercepted conversations, the agents identified Carlos Ware as Jackson's cocaine supplier, McCree and Hawkins as distributors for Ware, and others who played various roles in the operation.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/1251-01; Unicode character offsets [1483:1685] (end exclusive); SHA-256 db2e2c3e97883ca3f93a047deb87d2874ce5056a50b178817a970b81e1b0ffbd.We find no merit to Hawkins's assertions that the evidence admitted at trial was not sufficient to support his convictions because a reasonable trier of fact certainly could have found him guilty given the evidence presented.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/1251-01; Unicode character offsets [45809:46034] (end exclusive); SHA-256 db2e2c3e97883ca3f93a047deb87d2874ce5056a50b178817a970b81e1b0ffbd.But because Agent Russell's testimony-which constituted the majority of the evidence against Hawkins as to all three counts-was admitted in error, we remand for a new trial.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/1251-01; Unicode character offsets [46035:46208] (end exclusive); SHA-256 db2e2c3e97883ca3f93a047deb87d2874ce5056a50b178817a970b81e1b0ffbd. |