Legal Opinion
United States v. Richardson
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 7, 2000No. 99-1404, 99-1407, 99-1438 and 99-1474PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge..
Kareem Richardson, Roy T. Gaul, Marc Taylor, and David Arruda were convicted on multiple counts involving a conspiracy to distribute cocaine. They raise several issues on appeal, most importantly a challenge to the district court’s sentencing finding that the substance they distributed was both “cocaine base” and “crack.” We affírm.
I. Background
The defendants were arrested after an investigation involving a number of drug purchases by government informant John Thompson. Taylor facilitated Thompson’s purchases of crack cocaine from Gaul in June 1996, and Thompson bought…
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