Legal Opinion
United States v. Ellis
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 24, 2017No. 14-3165 & 14-3181PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.
In 2009, law-enforcement officials began investigating a Mexican cocaine-trafficking operation extending into the Kansas City area. This led them to several suspects, including Marvin Ellis, a low-level powder-cocaine buyer, who was working with two others to buy powder cocaine and cook at least some of it into cocaine base (crack cocaine) for resale. In 2012, Kansas police arrested Ellis after he fled from a traffic stop. At arrest, Ellis had a stolen handgun, miscellaneous drugs, and some drug-dealer paraphernalia. Later, based on this and separate evidence from the…
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