United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2019-08-02
Case and law context
Role: applied; posture: Jury conviction appeal with §846 conspiracy and §841 object counts; result: claimant-won; claim:
Instances and excluded annotation blocks
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| /f3d/932/1091-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2019 | Agreement of two or more persons to the unlawful object | satisfied Counted merits instance applied / merits basis: proved; count: Count I conspiracy; subject: count=Count I conspiracy The court rejects the attack on witness credibility as for the jury and upholds the conspiracy verdict. The testimony is credited under verdict-favorable review, not an independent undisputed fact. | supply-network/cohabiting-supplier-and-distributor | At the police station Utley waived his Miranda rights and consented to an interview, during which he stated that Burke regularly kept between a half-pound and two pounds of methamphetamine.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_932.jsonl#/f3d/932/1091-01; Unicode character offsets [3059:3248] (end exclusive); SHA-256 134fb3d6293d60034b50e328b2f8bc6338c96fa98b9411a4bc86a8b0b50fded8.Utley identified Mazzulla as Burke's source.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_932.jsonl#/f3d/932/1091-01; Unicode character offsets [3249:3293] (end exclusive); SHA-256 134fb3d6293d60034b50e328b2f8bc6338c96fa98b9411a4bc86a8b0b50fded8.Viewing the record in the light most favorable to the government, we are satisfied that the evidence supports the verdict on every count.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_932.jsonl#/f3d/932/1091-01; Unicode character offsets [28848:28985] (end exclusive); SHA-256 134fb3d6293d60034b50e328b2f8bc6338c96fa98b9411a4bc86a8b0b50fded8. |
| /f3d/932/1091-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2019 | Identified offense in Subchapter I | satisfied Counted merits instance applied / merits basis: proved; count: Count I conspiracy; subject: count=Count I conspiracy The opinion separately reaches sufficiency after rejecting other trial objections. The object is identified through evidence of methamphetamine distribution, not merely the indictment caption. | distribution/admitted-recurring-methamphetamine-sales | During the interview, Mazzulla admitted that over the past two years he sold up to two ounces of methamphetamine per week to his employees.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_932.jsonl#/f3d/932/1091-01; Unicode character offsets [2040:2179] (end exclusive); SHA-256 134fb3d6293d60034b50e328b2f8bc6338c96fa98b9411a4bc86a8b0b50fded8.Viewing the record in the light most favorable to the government, we are satisfied that the evidence supports the verdict on every count.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_932.jsonl#/f3d/932/1091-01; Unicode character offsets [28848:28985] (end exclusive); SHA-256 134fb3d6293d60034b50e328b2f8bc6338c96fa98b9411a4bc86a8b0b50fded8. |