United States First Circuit

Conviction and sentence of defendant for conspiring to possess and distribute cocaine is affirmed, where: 1) the evidence was more than sufficient to support the verdict; 2) the jury instruction, as given, conveyed the substance of defendant's defense; 3) the drug quantity calculation was imprecise, but the court only held defendant accountable for a very conservative estimate of the drugs that he himself handled; and 4) imprecise drug quantity findings are upheld when they are based upon conservative estimates or favorable assumptions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/04/2015
• Published 02/04/2015

Judges

• Kayatta

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel