United States v. Cross

CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge

MEMORANDUM OPINION'

In 2011, a jury convicted Defendant Elohim Bey Cross of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute over one kilogram of heroin, and he was sentenced to twenty years in prison. To obtain the conviction, the prosecution had to prove, among other things, that Cross reasonably foresaw that the conspiracy he joined distributed, or intended to distribute, more than one kilogram of heroin. The government met that burden mainly with the testimony of Cross’s supplier, who told the jury that he sold Cross 1.2…