United States Seventh Circuit

Government must provide at least some reliable evidence of a conversion ratio to support a defendant's conviction for crack cocaine offenses when the government cannot prove that all of the cocaine in a conviction under 21 USC 841(b)(1)(C) was converted to crack.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/10/2000
• Decided 03/26/2001
• Published 03/26/2001

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, RIPPLE and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew B. Baker, Jr. (Argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Dyer, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Robert W. Lewis (Argued), Gary, IN, for Defendant-Appellant., N.C. Deday LaRene (Argued), Bethesda, MD, for Defendant-Appellant.