United States First Circuit

Conviction of defendant for possession of cocaine base and for possession of cocaine base with intent to distribute is affirmed where: 1) the district court properly denied the suppression of the package of thirty-one baggies as the strip search was lawful; 2) the district court did not err in allowing a testifying chemist to rely in part on another chemist's test results as to one drug sample to establish the nature and weight of the drugs as other evidence overwhelmingly established that defendant held at least some of the baggies for distribution; and 3) district court correctly designated defendant as a career offender during sentencing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/07/2010
• Published 12/07/2010

Judges

• BOUDIN

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Martin Richey, Nina Goodman