United States First Circuit

Conviction and sentence for attempting to manufacture ecstasy is affirmed where the following evidence presented at trial was deemed sufficient to support the conviction: 1) defendant acquired ingredients necessary to manufacture ecstacy; 2) defendant researched, obtained, and actively studied ecstasy recipes; and 3) defendant acquired, assembled and tested equipment used to manufacture ecstacy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/26/2008
• Published 03/26/2008

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and BESOSA, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jaclyn-Greenhalgh, with whom Peter L. Ettenberg was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Hennessy, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.